Word: sheetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies his hardheaded attention to discipline and morale. Since the change...
...Sheetz and Kincaid are faced with other morale hazards. Recreational facilities consisted of a few broken-down movie shacks and football fields. Okinawa had become a dumping ground for Army misfits and rejects from more comfortable posts. In the six months ending last September, U.S. soldiers committed an appalling number of crimes-29 murders, 18 rape cases, 16 robberies, 33 assaults...
...Sheetz promptly set up classes to improve conduct. "You are ambassadors without portfolio of the U.S. Government," he sternly told officers...
Symbol on a Hill. General Sheetz and his staff, who are now engaged in the first organized effort in four years to cope with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where in May 1945 U.S. forces encountered some of the invasion's stiffest Japanese resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows...
...General Sheetz believes that the U.S. has far more than strategic interests on Okinawa: it carries, he says, "the moral responsibility of a Christian people to others." Sheetz, Kincaid and their staff are facing up to that responsibility; they are determined not to let Okinawa down...