Word: okinawa
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...line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor, two at Okinawa...
...name also applied by U.S. Navymen to a Japanese-piloted rocket bomb used in Kamikaze attacks on Okinawa...
...present Government has been dissipating, selfishly and with utter callousness, American supplies and money. A foreign shipping man tells U.S. friends this story: he acted as agent for the Government in shipping surplus American medical supplies from Okinawa. A week after these supplies were delivered to the Government, they turned up in his Shanghai warehouses as privately owned supplies, being held for black-market profits...
Busy Signalman. On Okinawa, Corporal I. Ringham had a wonderful time operating an Army switchboard...
...rest will be retired from active service. Six will be manned with enough personnel to keep their facilities ready for use as soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...