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...volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed by U.S. planes based in the Aleutians...
Only Jap unit identified by last week was Lieut. General Shiro Makino's 16th Division. But it was now obvious that Jap strength was far more than a division. Even before Makino's men were reinforced, General MacArthur had counted 12,000 Japs killed, estimated 18,000 wounded. U.S. casualties by last midweek were still low: 3,221 (including 976 killed or missing...
...John R. Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...
Before most Japanese were awake the nerve centres of their capital were thus in the hands of some 1,000 Army men, of whom the two highest in rank were one Captain Teruzo Ando and one Captain Shiro Nonaka. The dastards were most considerate of foreigners, not a single one of whom was molested in all Japan during last week's amazing 81 hours...
...Shiro Shiba, who is now a professor of Political Economy and a member of the Japanese Economical Society, has written a novel entitled, "Kajin-no-kigu." It is spoken of in highest terms by the Japanese Press, and among the honorary preface writers are Gen. Tani and Mr. Kim Okyuen. - Pennsylvanian...