Word: yokosuka
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...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...
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...
...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...