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U.S. WARSHIPS ENTER BAY BELOW TOKYO WHEN TYPHOONS DELAY OUR LANDINGS (8/26/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/26/45 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, George E. Jones, Drew Middleton, Gladwin Hill, John MacCormac, more

Posted on 08/26/2015 4:49:38 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

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KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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1 posted on 08/26/2015 4:49:38 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Areas under Allied and Japanese Control, 15 August 1945
The Western Pacific: Japanese Homeland Dispositions August 1945 and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall)
2 posted on 08/26/2015 4:50:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Nimitz Graybook

3 posted on 08/26/2015 4:50:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
400 Ships on Move (Kluckhohn) – 2
First Yanks in Japan Since Truce Warmly Met on Forced Landing (Jones) – 3
401 Allied Vessels Poised Off Japan – 3
Tokyo Reports Suicide Wave before Palace of Emperor – 4
May Lead Occupation (w/photo) – 4
Text of Tokyo Messages – 5
Tension Rises in China, Tokyo Landing Delayed (map) – 5
Chiang Wins Race to 2 Major Cities – 6
World News Summarized – 6
Red Army Chases Enemies in Korea – 7
3 Doolittle Fliers Weak but Happy – 8-9
Doolittle Airmen after Rescue from Enemy Prison Camp (photo) – 8
Jews in U.S. Zone of Reich Find Conditions Improving (by Middleton, Hill, MacCormac, Brooks Atkinson, Milton Bracker & Paul B. Kennedy) – 10-14
War Cost America 52 Submarines – 14
Invites Veterans into Civil Service – 14
The Veteran (by Charles Hurd) – 15
7 German Captives Hanged in Kansas – 15

The News of the Week in Review
Ten Focal Points in the Changing Pacific (map) – 16
Occupation – 17-19
Fifteen News Questions – 19
“Complete Surrender – Including Face (cartoon) – 20
Japan’s Fanatics are M’Arthur’s No. 1 Problem (Jones) – 21-22
“And Remember – No ‘Incidents’ (cartoon) – 22
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 22

The New York Times Magazine
It’s Socialism, Not Communism, Says Laski (by Harold J. Laski) – 23-25

4 posted on 08/26/2015 4:52:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/7/26.htm

August 26th, 1945 (SUNDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Sir Arthur Harris, the C-in-C of RAF Bomber Command announces his resignation. He will relinquish his command next month and retire from the RAF shortly afterwards.

BURMA: Japanese envoys, led by Lieutenant General NUMATA Takazo, Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Count TERAUCHI Hisaichi, Commander in Chief, Japanese Southern Army, arrives at an airfield outside Rangoon this morning to carry out surrender arrangements in southeast Asia.

HONG KONG: Instructions have been given to the Japanese garrison to surrender to British Rear Admiral Cecil H. J. Harcourt, Commander of the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron.

JAPAN: Japanese diplomats board the U.S. battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) to receive instructions on Japan’s surrender.

The posts of Minister of Greater East Asia, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce and Minister of Munitions in the Cabinet of Prime Minister, Prince HIGASHIKUNI Naruhiko are abolished.

CANADA: HMC ML 121 paid off.


5 posted on 08/26/2015 4:52:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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My groggy, precaffeinated self just did a double-take on the page 9 Fownes Glove ad.

“168 years of fine love making for men and women”.


6 posted on 08/26/2015 5:29:20 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

bookmark


7 posted on 08/26/2015 5:36:05 AM PDT by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Looking at the terms and approach used in Japan’s surrender, it occurs that Germany could have gotten a much better deal if the July 20 1944 coup against Hitler had succeeded, and the new German leaders waved a white flag.


8 posted on 08/26/2015 5:48:18 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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More information on sinking of IJN Kongo by USS Sealion II:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/eclipkong.html


9 posted on 08/26/2015 6:28:33 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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It is socialism not communism.


Will have to drink more coffee but they seem it seems like nonsense on first read. They even acknowledge Hitler and stalin are socialist but his methods were wrong. They are going to do it right in a slow democratic process..........


10 posted on 08/26/2015 6:36:38 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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I haven’t had my coffee yet, either. I read the title and thought

“It’s feces, not s***.”

Oh yeah, you can smell the difference.


11 posted on 08/26/2015 7:06:41 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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To: Demiurge2

I’m not sure about that. At the time, the NYT drew very little distinction at the time between Hitler and the German militarists, who were perceived to be the officer corps.

What would have been interesting would have been if the German leadership offered “unconditional surrender” in the west only, and not in the east.

But at that point I am flirting with a violation of henkster’s law.


12 posted on 08/26/2015 7:09:43 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Halsay’s Ride in Toykyo


There rest of the story and it is long and tangled:

http://www.lrgaf.org/military/hirohito.htm

Halsey did ride a horse, but he wasn’t Emperor Hirohito’s white stallion, who remained private property of the Emperor. Instead, he rode another horse that was supplied by Major General William Chase, the commander of the First Calvary Regiment. After reviewing the honor guard of the First Calvary Regiment, he mounted the horse and rode slowly around the bivouac area on the outskirts of Tokyo. It was an unscheduled affair, so he didn’t get to use the special saddle. “Please don’t let me alone with this animal,” the Admiral said. Upon dismounting, he grinned and said, “I was never so scared in my life.”


13 posted on 08/26/2015 7:32:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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IT IS COMMUNISM, NOT SOCIALSIM. (a current view)

http://www.badeagle.com/2008/10/19/its-communism-not-socialism/

In any case, until people can start understanding that “redistribution of wealth” is Communism, the conservatives and Republicans will never deliver a knock-out punch. Communism is the necessary word here.


14 posted on 08/26/2015 7:43:25 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Tokyo Reports Suicide Wave Before Palace of Emperor


There was a strong relationship between the military and suicide. Even as late as 2008 it is still an issue:

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20080328-56769.html

Under pressure, the education ministry in December restored references in history textbooks to note that Okinawans ‘committed group suicides with the involvement by the Japanese military.’


15 posted on 08/26/2015 7:59:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Here is a list of Japanese military suicides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Japanese_military_personnel_who_committed_suicide

On 14 August 1945, Anami signed the surrender document with the rest of the cabinet, then attempted suicide by seppuku early the next morning. Failing to conduct the ritual properly he had to be dispatched by his brother-in-law.[dubious – discuss][6] His suicide note read: “I—with my death—humbly apologize to the Emperor for the great crime.”[7] This “cryptic” note is open to multiple interpretations.[8]

Not much reference at the below regarding the Japanese surrender but describes the history and process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku


16 posted on 08/26/2015 8:14:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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The KONGO was, in fact, sinking , and damage control had lost the battle to prolong her life. If any confirmation was needed, it was provided when they heard the Chief DCO had committed suicide in frustration at the failure.


Fascinating story. Guess I am noticing the suicides this morning, seems like they are everywhere in the Japanese military. Was a movie ever made of this?


17 posted on 08/26/2015 8:36:34 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Eli Thomas Reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Thomas_Reich

a highly decorated United States Navy officer and World War II submarine commander — the only one to sink a battleship during the war.

Shortly after his retirement from the Navy, Reich was named director of the Emergency Energy Allocations Program, which was responsible for the distribution of oil and gasoline during the 1973 oil crisis. Described as a “crusty three-star admiral” by syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Admiral Reich was reported by the columnists to have told staff members:
“I don’t give a damn for the public image. We’re not here to create an image. We’re to do a job—my way. And that’s the military way.”
After a short time at the job, Admiral Reich clashed with energy chief William E. Simon, and he left the newly formed Department of Energy.


18 posted on 08/26/2015 8:47:29 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

That is a funny story about Halsey. Not much need for horses in the navy, but given the generation he’d come from, I’m surprised he didn’t have more experience in the saddle.


19 posted on 08/26/2015 8:50:50 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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After a short time at the job, Admiral Reich clashed with energy chief William E. Simon, and he left the newly formed Department of Energy.

Hard to tell whether he was let go because of his age, he was no longer effective, or whether he was actually too effective, which isn't what bureaucrats want. If he left the DOE to go into the old folks home, where he was known to repeat to the staff:

"I sank a battleship! A Japanese battleship! Now, who stole my World's Fair Spoon?!"

I guess we would know which situation was true.

20 posted on 08/26/2015 8:55:25 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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