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...years, he found no cure, but he found a cause. He became a lay missionary in the Anglican Church in Japan and devoted himself to helping other leprosy victims. In March 1927, at the age of 35, he made his way to jungle-like Motobu Peninsula on northern Okinawa because he had heard fearful tales of the misery of Okinawa's leprosy sufferers...
...founding fathers were gathering in San Francisco, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci were lowered into potter's field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry the bomb that would make Japan, already defeated, plunge headlong into surrender...
...auxiliary vessel, one cargo vessel, one minelayer, four barges and 30 enemy planes. Each time he got an order for movement, he gave the same reply: "Proceeding at 31 knots." Later, he became chief of staff to Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, planned and executed carrier attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo. Twice the flagship was hit, and twice he led rescue parties to the men trapped below. Burke ended the war with a chestful of medals, including a Navy Cross, two Distinguished Service Medals, two Legion of Merits...
Dropping in at a U.S. base on Okinawa, General Maxwell D. Taylor, 54, commander in chief of U.N. forces in the Far East, soon shed his stars, leaped into some shorts, was a study in muscular alertness as he awaited the serve of his tennis opponent. Later this month, he will shift his strategy to Washington, where he will take over from retiring General Matthew B. Ridgway as Army Chief of Staff...
Reischauer himself will be taking a long look at the Far East for the next fourteen months. Under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be investigating "higher education in the area of Chinese civilization," as well as political situations in Formosa, Korea, Hong Kong, and Okinawa. "I don't know what the U.S. Government will think about someone out there poking around, but we'll see," he says. With his arms filled with typhoid shots and his smile as friendly as ever, Reischauer will against next year display his unique combination of the professor-statesman...