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...weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church in New Hampshire and in a miners' union hall in Duluth on a night when the wind off the lake blew the snow in killingly. I have seen American...
VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC, by Samuel Eliot Morison. This 14th volume of Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II includes exciting accounts of the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, brings to a close the best of all U.S. service histories...
Waiting for Jack. As in numerous other Utopian military settlements scattered from Germany to Okinawa, President Eisenhower's order was heard with shocked incredulity at Wiesbaden village. For the villagers themselves, the impact was somewhat cushioned by the discovery that the order does not involve any immediate separation of families already overseas-only their replacements. But Air Force and Army brass, defending their way of life, hurried to point out that an oasis like Wiesbaden is an inspiration to men stuck with unattractive assignments at a Turkish radar site or a missile battery on a remote German mountain-they...
...elections to the local legislature approached in the great Pacific bastion of Okinawa and 46 other islands of the Ryukyu chain, Washington officialdom had its fingers crossed. In the last elections in 1958, Red-lining anti-American candidates had shown alarming strength; five months ago when Dwight Eisenhower flew into Okinawa during his Asian tour, jeering agitators greeted him with placards reading I HATE IKE. Last week, when the ballots of 374,000 Ryukyu voters were finally tallied, Washington began rubbing its eyes in stunned but joyous surprise...