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...trusteeship over the Japanese Ryukyu and Bonin Islands (including Okinawa...
...veteran rifleman in the Marine Corps who saw two years service, two bloody campaigns (Peleliu and Okinawa), and received two wounds (one in each campaign), who will not be 25 years old until next month, and who knows that a lot of my buddies were my age or younger ... I hope you will print this letter so that Hershey's remark may at least be placed in perspective. It was precisely the youngsters who were doing the bloody work-so they only saw two years service (a short time...
...such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy mines off Palau, Okinawa, the Philippines and Normandy...
...final decision would have to come from the U.N., which was anxious to have as many nations as possible represented in the Korean occupation. But in any case a decision would have to come soon. The brigade is scheduled to ship out for final training in Okinawa by mid-November...
...could be held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...