Just before D-Day, 14 or 15 months ago, I had a 30 day supply of news ready for posting. Since then I have steadily burned that down to where, for the last couple months, I have been racing to stay ahead of the calendar. That is my pitiful excuse for not having some well thought out remarks ready to finish up with. But I will do it, even if I only get half credit for being late. In the meantime, feel free to contribute your own thoughts on what we might learn from the biggest event of the twentieth century.
25,000 Men Ready (Jones) – 2-3
Japanese Premier Insists on Order – 3
Japanese Reduced to Poverty in War (Adler) – 4
Surrender Ceremony Marking Japan’s First Defeat in Her 2,600-Year-Old History (photos) – 4-7
Japanese Give Up Pacific Bastions – 5
Yamashita Yields in Philippines; Wainwright Takes the Surrender * – 6-7
Canadian’s ‘Boner’ Postponed Peace ** (Trumbull) – 8
334 U.S. Ships Hit in Okinawa Battle (Lawrence) – 8
Claims Old Bases – 9
World News Summarized – 9
Army Cuts Release Points to 80 for Men, 41 for Wacs – 10
Latest War Casualties – 11
Aiding of Wounded Called Army Task – 11
Communiques – 11
Editorials – 12-14
Japan’s Surrender
The Labor GI
Nomads Again
Back to School
National Nursing Needs
Grindstones
Topics of the Times
* My plan from the beginning was to end this series with the news reports of the surrender ceremony on the Missouri. I expected that news to appear in the Times on the 3rd, not realizing it took place on Sept. 1, New York Time, with the newspaper coverage appearing on the 2nd. But after I finished gathering the news from that date I took a peek at the following day just to see what I would miss. When I saw the Yamashita story, which revealed he surrendered to the CO of the 128th Infantry Regiment I knew I had to go for one more day, since that was my father’s unit from March 1943 until he was evacuated from Leyte Island in January 1945 – HJS. (128th Infantry Regimental coat of arms comes courtesy of CougarGA7.)
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