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Enclosed find a photograph which was removed from a slain Jap on Okinawa. The lady in slacks appears to be Amelia Earhart...
...white phosphorus, which not only screens but burns on contact, was more feared by the enemy than high explosive. The Navy was even more pleased with CWS's protective smokes. Not a ship was lost by air attack at Anzio after CWS touched off its smoke pots. At Okinawa even the Navy's big battlewagons were glad to come in under CWS's smoke to hide from the Kamikaze planes...
...Okinawa had been good ground for the Word of God. Planted in the years of peace, it had taken root, brought forth good fruit. War did not lay the ground waste. Said Army Chaplain Garland Evans Hopkins, in last week's Christian Century: "Perhaps no such witness to the durability of the Christian faith has been borne in our time as by the Okinawan Christians." His testimony...
...expecting to find even one Christian among [Okinawa's 15-man Advisory Council], I yet asked if any of them were Christian. No official of Military Government knew, but one remembered that a member by the name of Toyama refused a cigaret once and someone had explained that he did so because he was Christian...
...this activity is proceeding with no central organization, no church buildings, with few Bibles and hardly any hymnbooks. . . . The only Japanese Scripture in Ishikawa [Okinawa's capital] is ten pages of foolscap, which Mr. Toyama had written down from memory for his own devotions...