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Power of a Woman. On Okinawa, three struggling G.I.s huffed & puffed at the task of carrying a folded tent to a loading area, five minutes later saw it move down the road atop the head of a tiny Okinawan woman...
...brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back to the Navy, as a commander; 5) to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as a press-relations handyman...
Only a year ago the U.S. Army was pouring across the Rhine, the Navy was bombarding Okinawa. By last week more than ten million veterans of World War II were back; seven million were at work; 2,100,000 were at school or on vacation; 83,607 were hospitalized. The country had promised to cushion the shock of their return and the country, for the most part, had made good. No soldier could deny that...