Word: okinawa
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...Naval Operations (TIME, Nov. 24), the morale of Navy airmen, already low, sank into the bilges. Admiral Denfeld was a submarine and battleship man. The only thing he knew about air power, the airmen grumbled, was what he learned from watching Jap Kamikazes dive on his battleship division off Okinawa...
...much sympathy for Samuels as an individual at the expense of a better understanding of Samuels as a type. For instance, it is revealed toward the end of the story that he, contrary to the belief of the murderer, was in the army, overseas, and even wounded on Okinawa...
...went too far. A commodore was so outraged by Paar's impudence that he ordered the comedian court-martialed. The Army had to bail Jack out by promising to exile him to Okinawa. "But they couldn't do that," cackles Paar. "I found out later that some friendly doctor had written all across my record, 'Unstable, Positively Unfit for Front-Line Duty.' Best friend I ever...
...China. 4. Okinawa...
Midwife in Boots. The Molotov note was a victory for chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled...