Word: okinawa
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...from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
Peace had caught the armed forces in a manpower dilemma. Nonetheless, some European veterans-nobody knew how many-had to police Japan. There were several good reasons: 1) the number of divisions in the Pacific is relatively small, and many of them were badly mauled on Okinawa and in the Philippines; 2) sending nothing but green, untested troops might undo much of the good in occupation, might be risky for the men themselves; 3) it would be unfair to keep Pacific veterans in Japan indefinitely-most Pacific divisions (which will have to berY the early occupation burden) have seen more...
...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...
...Tokashiki islet, near Okinawa, there was no sign of humility in Major Yoshi-tsugu Akamatsu. The cocky 26-year-old self-consciously patted his polished boots -"Cavalry officer, you know"-then offered to fight it out, said it would be glorious to die in battle. In the end, he surrendered...
...Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy v. Kamikaze at Okinawa; TIME...