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They quickly captured the elaborate Ushi air base-a major staging point in the Japs' steppingstone route to the south -and rolled on to take a second strip near Gurguan, also Tinian town. Casualty figures were vastly more favorable to U.S. forces than in any comparable island operation. Only 15 marines were lost in the landings; within a few hours, 1,200 Japs had died...
Into the woods near Honolulu's Schofield Barracks one night last week crept 60-year-old Ushi Makamine. Though he had lived in Honolulu under the U.S. flag, Makamine-san was planning the gesture of a fiery Japanese patriot. He would set the central island of Oahu afire, die himself in a blaze of glory...