Word: okinawa
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...Spruance of the Fifth Fleet held a press conference aboard the battleship New Jersey in Manila Bay. For those who assume that all admirals are intent upon the biggest postwar Navy obtainable, Spruance's views came as a little bombshell. Said he: the Navy should ,be substantially reduced; Okinawa should be a United Nations, instead of a U.S., base; U.S. bases in China or Formosa would not be practical; the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines would be enough...
After the C-54 had flown revealingly close to the plane-packed airfields of Okinawa, the flight steward broke out box lunches with sandwiches, hardboiled eggs, cake and a sweet pickle apiece. All ate well, and asked for seconds of pineapple juice-except Kawabe. He sipped a little juice, nibbled...
...there will be no "military government" as such. But MacArthur presumably will have under him a chief military superviser, a political adviser, regional chiefs, and a swarm of other functionaries. Already lined up were such able men as Brigadier General William E. Crist, who has been military governor of Okinawa, and Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir, who has made a career of knowing the Japanese in peace...
Bigart was with the Seventh Army in Sicily, saw the Fifth Army liberate Rome, and watched MacArthur land in the Philippines. He was in action at Leyte, and invaded Okinawa with the Tenth Army. Other correspondents learned to respect him as a reporter who was "trying to build his reputation at the cannon's mouth." His dispatches appeared in only one paper, so his by-line was not as well known as many; but he was one of the war's best reporters...
...Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy v. Kamikaze at Okinawa; TIME...