Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor will be required to authorize and insure the signature by the government of Japan and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters of the surrender terms necessary to carry out the provisions of the Potsdam declaration, and shall issue his commands to all the Japanese military, naval and air authorities and to all of the forces under their control wherever located to cease active operations and to surrender their arms, and to issue such other orders as the supreme commander may require to give effect to the surrender terms...
...Navy, suddenly discovering that this feeling was typical, began a campaign to make amends for its bungled selling job. All Hands, official Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine, last week published a letter to all Reservists from square-shooting, popular Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The gist: the Navy would need perhaps 30,000 more Regular officers than it has now; it hopes to get them from the Reserves...
...were three generalized inducements: 1) transfers would be made in such, a manner as to "place all of you on an equal footing with U.S.N. officers of about the same age and of the same length of service in rank"; 2) Reservists who transfer would get the best naval education in the world; and 3) they would be promised "an equal opportunity in promotions and assignments...
...dividing the Pacific command by function rather than by area, had said in April that they might designate either MacArthur or Nimitz as commander of any future offensive. But MacArthur's statement provoked Nimitz to the mildest of replies. For the record, he pointed out, "Control of all naval and naval air forces, naval bases and naval installations" in the Ryukyus remains in his command; the strategic bombers remain under Spaatz's command. Spelling it out, Nimitz emphasized that naval commanders in the Ryukyus report direct to him-not through MacArthur...
...always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...