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Secretary of State Dulles announced flatly that the U.S. regards Okinawa and the bulk of the Ryukyu and Bonin Island chains as "essential links" in the strategic defense of the whole Pacific area, intends to keep control of them "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." Under a defense system that accents air power and mobility, the Ryukyus and Bonins will be strong U.S. air and naval outposts in a defensive line that stretches along the China coast from Japan to the Philippines...
...East China Sea over hundreds of miles was plowed into moving, triangular furrows as the great U.S. amphibious force bore toward Okinawa. In the center of the mighty array were 1,213 vessels carrying 182,000 assault troops and their gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with...
...planes, desperate survivors of a deadly war of attrition, swept in. But before they could hit the transports, they had to get past the destroyer pickets and the planes the destroyers whistled up from the carriers. Day after day, week after week, as men and supplies poured onto the Okinawa beaches, the small boys performed their man-sized jobs. In desperation, fleets of Kamikazes plunged out of the sky, their suicidal pilots aiming their bomb loads at the destroyers. A barrage of fire stopped most, but not all. By the time the shooting stopped, 13 U.S. destroyers had been sunk...
...successful test of the atomic bomb at Alamogordo. The momentous intelligence came in a code message: "Babies satisfactorily born." Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, showed Churchill the message and translated it for him. The U.S. and British leaders, who had been downcast by the desperate Japanese resistance on Okinawa, were immensely cheered...
...Sneider) has roughly the same locale as Mister Roberts and South Pacific and should have roughly the same success. The play has all the virtues of a big popular hit and not too many of the usual drawbacks. In treating of an occupation officer's experiences in an Okinawa village, Playwright Patrick has chosen a warm comedy level and stuck to it. Perhaps more crucially, Playwright Patrick, helped by able Director Robert Lewis and Scene Designer Peter Larkin, has created throughout an artificial, fairy-tale mood. Hence, though East is East and West is West, the twain meet...