Word: yokosuka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take John Walker, who faced Jap mortar fire with the Marines landing in the Palaus and who almost lost his life on Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
...airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
...criminals to be tried. When Saipan fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival." The Mayor of Yokosuka, whom U.S. newsmen described as the spit & image of Tojo, toasted President Truman...
Taken to Admiral William F. Halsey's 45,000-ton flagship Missouri, the Japs handed over armloads of charts covering Yokosuka's approaches to serve as guides for the occupiers...