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...Miss. On Okinawa, a Jap sniper took careful aim, shot Private Kenneth W. Cunningham right through the heart-or where his heart should have been. Private Cunningham, whose heart is on the wrong side, survived...
...Surrender must mean, unconditionally, the end of Jap militarism. But it will not mean enslavement of the people. They will still have the chance to earn their way in a peaceful world, when they have shown that they can be peaceful...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...
...chairs. Few pencils, little paper and no chalk was to be had. The books that remained were encrusted with the pastemarks of Japanese censors. This was the Filipino education picture last week, as tens of thousands of children went back to school for the first time since the Jap occupation...
Interesting. In Baltimore, Marine Pfc. Edmund Egbert, dutifully filling out a questionnaire, described his "most interesting" war experience: "The day I got hit I had an experience with a Jap whereas we went around and around a rock that is which led to bloodshed first his and then mine...