Word: okinawa
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...base on Okinawa. ¶A U.S. guarantee that an armed attack on the Philippines would be looked upon as an armed attack upon the U.S. itself. ¶A U.S. agreement with Australia and New Zealand on defense...
...Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the battleship Missouri. The "Big Mo," as the ship came to be called, displaced 45,000 tons, had a top speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...
...Army, and could expect none of the citizenship favors bestowed on aliens who serve as U.S. soldiers. He stayed in shattered Manila three more years, spending his back pay from the Government on medical treatment. Finally, in 1949, he got a visa to the U.S. He was shipwrecked off Okinawa; by the time he got to San Francisco, the TB had flared up again...
...Navy sent him to college (Rice Institute in Houston), then to preflight school at Pensacola, Fla. In December 1948, he qualified for carrier duty. On July 31, 1950, he joined the Valley Forge at Okinawa. On Aug. 6, he flew his first combat mission. The next day, on another mission, was the first time the 22-year-old, raised under the rule of law & order and under the Ten Commandments, killed a man. In his journal, Tatum wrote later in neat block letters: "Monday, August 7. Armed Recon Southwest Korea. Up to Taejon and Seoul. Shot up 2 junks...
...Retreat, hell!" snapped Major General Oliver Prince Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division, with which he had fought on Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa (TIME, Sept. 25). "We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction...