Word: ryukyus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body of 90; cases of books from the U.S are pouring into its neat library. Tall, straight-featured, 21-year-old Yasukane Agarie, the library...
...State Department, said John Taber, had not "justified" China's need (see Foreign Relations). For good measure, tight-fisted Mr. Taber wanted a 53% cut (fron; $490 million to $230 million) in the funds requested by the Army to meet occupational expenses in Germany, Austria, Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea. There was little doubt that parts, at least, of all these cuts would eventually be restored.* But, against only desultory opposition on the floor, John Taber readily got the House to approve his recommendations...
...seen more Pacific fighting than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...situation was most acute in the Pacific. Bases on former Jap-mandated islands, in the Philippines, Ryukyus and Aleutians, were the fruit of great and costly amphibious campaigns. The danger was that this fruit would be rotten before it was ripe...
...tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo. It is reported with a tacit grasp of the overall strategy, an identification, remarkable in a correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many...