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...another as a volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...
...Critics of the Administration's stand on Formosa have emphasized the island's importance. This importance has been greatly exaggerrated. Formosa is 160 miles from the Chinese mainland. As a jumping-off place for Communist forces against American basis on Okinawa (300 miles north) and the Phillipines (230 miles south) it provides only a negligible advantage to the mainland in terms of airplane ranges. Similarly American forces could attack China almost as easily from Okinawa or the Phillipines as from Formosa...
...wish to thank you for the fair and constructive treatment TIME [Nov. 28] gave . . . the occupation of Okinawa, where the Army is doing a difficult...
...would appreciate it, however, if you would correct the figures concerning untoward incidents in Okinawa during the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 1949. The correct official combined Army-Air Force figures for this period disclose that there were six murders, eight rapes, seven robberies and 23 assaults. TIME'S figures, which we could not confirm or deny during the few hours they were available to us before publication, were [considerably higher...
...Joint Chiefs do not regard Formosa of prime strategic importance to the U.S. as a military base. They believe that Japan, the Philippines and particularly Okinawa, with their war-built airfields, are better for that. But in friendly hands, Formosa could be a valuable irritant against the Communist-held mainland, if the U.S. showed its determination to hold...