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...stiffest, ablest defense yet made by the Japs was put up on Okinawa. By last week, many a citizen and many a Pacific soldier saw significance in that fact when it was coupled with another. The second fact: on Okinawa more Jap soldiers surrendered than had ever surrendered before...
...Guam, Saipan and other islands long conquered by the U.S., Jap soldiers holed up in the hills still surrender by twos and threes, only occasionally by squads. But on Okinawa, even before the battle had ended, there were some surrenders in platoon strength, a few in greater numbers. Japanese prisoner compounds were populated by the hundreds...
...burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...Manila, where U.S. Navy carrier planes set an all-time mark for destruction, they went to work while Japs still spat bullets from behind grass-grown earth works on dead ships. Flamethrowers disposed of the Japs; then Sullivan's men methodically disposed of the snips. Sixty salvagers, half of them divers, had formed the first team, clearing 45 "sugar Charlies," (small Jap freighters) from Slip 2 in the north harbor, so LCTs could land ammunition and food. Soon 20 teams swarmed over the harbor's hulks...
After lunch, the party watched technicians blow up a miniature Jap cruiser, went on to dinner at the beach house of International's Bill Goetz...