Word: manchuria
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...list of men found "safe & well" was Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, hero of Bataan and successor to MacArthur. He was found in a Manchuria prison camp near Mukden...
...mostly medical personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
...peace of the world." MacArthur was the Supreme Allied Commander for the purpose of receiving Japan's formal surrender. The emphasis was on the word "for"; he was not supreme commander "of" Allied forces. The surrender terms which he imposes upon Japan must be executed in Manchuria by the invading Russians, in China by Chinese armies, in Southeast Asia by Admiral Mountbatten's forces, in the Indies by the Dutch and Australians, in the Philippines by MacArthur's own Army divisions, in countless Pacific islands by the U.S. Navy...
...Manchuria and China surrender came rapidly: even on remote Bougainville (in the Solomons) and Wewak (New Guinea), there was less delay in dealings between field commanders than between the two supreme headquarters...
Unfolding Hand. The swift advance of Russia's armies in Inner. Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea brought another political force to the fore. The Yenan-sponsored "Korean Independence League" (hitherto less prominent than other Korean exile groups in Chungking and Washington) suddenly emerged. It proclaimed...