Word: okinawa
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...been fighting its own little war-mostly against its superior officers. In January the G.I.s publicly accused the "brass" of trying to muzzle their Tokyo daily. A month later Sergeant Kenneth Pettus, the managing editor, and Corporal Barnard Rubin, the star columnist, were fired from.the paper, ordered to Okinawa for reassignment. Explained an officer: the two had flunked a "loyalty check...
...Spokes. From the Marianas, well-protected sea lanes would radiate to secondary bases in the Philippines and Okinawa. To the south, Manus in the Admiralty Islands would be (subject to Australian approval) a Guam in reserve, maintained in caretaker status...
...Kurils deal gave added ammunition to U.S. proponents of outright U.S. annexation-as against administration under UNO trusteeship-of such wartime Pacific bases as the Marshalls, Marianas, Carolines and Okinawa (which occupies roughly the same strategic position to the south of Japan as the Kurils do to the north...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
...natives of Okinawa are about as nonneurotic as any people in the world. So reported Navy Psychiatrist Lieut. Commander James Clark Moloney, who studied the mental states of Okinawans while the battle smoke still hung heaviest...