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...Headquarters could have been transmitted and should have been enforced most quickly. By the Japs' own admission, their planes attacked twelve Allied transports cruising near Shikoku; Third Fleet fighters shot down snoopers aplenty. A brace of kamikaze pilots heading for the Shinto heaven crashed into Ihiya Island, near Okinawa, causing U.S. casualties...
First Fears. Among civilians and servicemen alike, anger rose. At Okinawa a field officer asked bitterly: "Is there anyone here today proud of being an American?" Said others: "The Japs are now dictating the peace." In Honolulu, veterans of the Spanish-American War proclaimed that they would not "join in any parade celebrating the victory of Emperor Hirohito over our Washington politicians. We have lost face." On Guam, B-29 airmen quit their kidding about "Tokyo Tours...
Charles Crommelin, back at sea as commander of an air group, was shot down off Okinawa last March. Last week, the Navy announced that Richard's plane had crashed at sea off northern Japan...
General Joseph Stilwell, asked by some visiting publishers on Okinawa what he thought the average G.I.'s war aims were, obliged by writing an (813-word) imaginary dialogue between a "Highbrow and a G.I." Asked about "the ideology behind the action," the G.I. responds: "The war started, and we got drafted, and here we are." Pressed further, General Joe's G.I. tells the Highbrow off: "You are looking for something so natural that nobody thinks of naming...
CURRENT &. CHOICE The Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy v. Kamikaze at Okinawa; TIME...