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...visit last week. "This time," he told reporters, "I come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes that his chief mission as a Christian now lies in Japan...
Last week Anna proudly pointed out that her second promise had been kept. Since the first rotation ship left Kobe, Japan last March, 152,304 officers and G.I.s, 72,000 Navymen, and 29,991 Marines had been sent home-every last combat man except 137 critical specialists. To replace them, the Army had shipped out 225,000 fresh troops plus two full National Guard Divisions (California's 40th and Oklahoma's 45th...
...their group, Japanese Petty Officer Junji Inoue, had surrendered to the crew of a U.S. Navy tug three weeks ago (TIME, June 25). He told his captors then that the others were being held in thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife, a pet cat and a new version of Inoue's story. The petty tyrant of Ana-tahan...
...Seven Negroes won the Medal of Honor in 1898; five were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment on San Juan Hill, the other two were Navymen...
...when Nimitz became Chief of Naval Operations, he gave Sherman the job of working out the unification agreement. Sherman dutifully sat down with his friend Lieut. General Lauris Norstad of the Army Air Force and negotiated agreement. To the anti-unification Navymen, led by Vice Admiral Arthur Radford, this was just short of treason to their service. When Denfeld brought Radford to Washington as his vice chief, Sherman went off to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet...