Word: yokosuka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EUGENE H. WURMSER Yokosuka, Japan...
...first detachment was made up of Navy families. A rear admiral's wife and commanders' wives mingled at the ship's rail with enlisted men's wives. Taught by experience, the Navy had leveled caste distinctions during the voyage and on arrival at Yokosuka...
...conquered joined in the welcome. At the gangplank stood a committee of six delegates from the Yokosuka Women's Association, three in gay kimonos, who bowed gravely and offered greetings (in Japanese): "All the women of Yokosuka have been waiting to meet the wives. We want to learn American ways." As they eyed American legs, it was clear that they wanted to learn how to get rayon or nylon stockings...
Before V-J day, 4,000 men had gathered mysteriously at Tokyo Bay's naval base of Yokosuka. Their working garb was strange, their training secret, their mission vitally important, their fate certain death. These were the first of the fukuryus (crouching dragons), underwater attack units wearing special diving suits and armed with explosive charges. Upon them the Naval Ministry had pinned its hopes of repelling an American invasion of the home islands...
...units as megaphones, up to 1,000 feet by knocking pieces of metal together. Planned, but not yet built at the war's end, were reinforced concrete underwater dens where crouching dragons could lie in wait for ships. At war's end there were 4.000 fukuryus at Yokosuka, of whom 1,200 were fully trained...