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...officialdom, it has long been an article of faith that Japanese resentment over U.S. occupation of Okinawa stems largely from ignorance of the true state of affairs. Acting on this assumption. General Lyman Lemnitzer, U.S. commander in. the Far East, last month invited twelve prominent Japanese politicians and businessmen to visit the island and see conditions for themselves...
...training as "absolutely inadequate." In his own division, said Green, he accepts enlistments only if the enlistees agree to sign up for six months' training-and "we are gaining strength; we are gaining proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks' training. "I lost 2,200 men in my regiment alone . . . Those men died because they were not trained. It was murder...
...Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander of Carrier Division 6 with Admiral Marc Mitscher's vast Task Force 58. There he pasted Japanese shore installations from the South China Sea all the way north to Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. His airmen called him the "pilots' admiral" because they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups-and he knew well the fine line between possible and impossible. Once, while his flagship Yorktown was in the Philippines area, Radford got-orders to send...
...handful of Communists and left-wingers. The second was Douglas MacArthur II. veteran State Department official whose illustrious uncle is well remembered in Japan. Ambassador MacArthur got a full official welcome at the airport, in a demonstration that was swelled by left-wingers with unwelcoming placards: "Give Back Okinawa...
John Patrick's screenplay is almost identical to his play, an effective satire of the attempt of the U.S. Government and Army to bring American democracy and values to the inhabitants of Okinawa after the war. Thanks to Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Cinema scope, and Warnercolor the movie is better than the play...