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...Guam, Saipan and other islands long conquered by the U.S., Jap soldiers holed up in the hills still surrender by twos and threes, only occasionally by squads. But on Okinawa, even before the battle had ended, there were some surrenders in platoon strength, a few in greater numbers. Japanese prisoner compounds were populated by the hundreds...
...cannot be expressed in words and even I, as an actual witness, found it impossible to comprehend fully-there was too much of it: it was too contrary to all principles of humanity-and I was coldly stunned. Under the pine trees the scattered dead were lying, not in twos or threes or dozens, but in thousands. The living tore ragged clothing from the corpses to build fires over which they boiled pine needles and roots for soup. Little children rested their heads against the stinking corpses of their mothers, too nearly dead themselves to cry. A man hobbled...
...both ends. Machine guns yammer. We can see grenades exploding and the infantry still running, naked and terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...
...three hours, Oldendorf's ships had to beat off a hundred Jap fighters and fighter bombers, attacking in twos & threes, concentrating first on the jeep carriers. Some enemy planes scored: at least one "big ship" took a hit on a forward turret; her captain was wounded, and there was great danger of magazine explosions. But damage and fire-control crews showed superb courage and skill. The ship kept formation and ploughed...
...Airman Mitscher was sure that the war in the western Pacific would not stop, and as he spoke, the jittery Japs got proof: four-engined bombers which they identified as B-29 Superfortresses droned in ones & twos over the Tokyo area. They dropped no bombs, and eventually the Japs figured it out: the big planes were on reconnaissance, looking-among other things-for crippled Jap ships in Yokosuka navy yard, where they might have fled from Mitscher's flyers a week earlier...