Word: okinawans
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...peace, it had taken root, brought forth good fruit. War did not lay the ground waste. Said Army Chaplain Garland Evans Hopkins, in last week's Christian Century: "Perhaps no such witness to the durability of the Christian faith has been borne in our time as by the Okinawan Christians." His testimony...
...escorts, LCSs) which formed the "picket line" 25 to 50 miles above the main anchorage had been severely mauled. By staying out front, the little ships with thin hulls had been able to warn the big transports and gunnery ships of approaching Jap planes. But they became the first Okinawan targets in the sights of the Jap suicide planes, . and they took the greatest concentrated damage, plus more than 1,000 casualties...
When the next-to-last major enemy pocket on Okinawa (on Oroku Peninsula) was being mopped up, as many as 145 Japs surrendered in a single day. It almost seemed that the lower ranks might be seeing the light. But the prisoners were mostly Okinawan and Korean service troops, far from typical of Jap fighting men. The typical attitude was shown by Jap officers who shot their enlisted men for trying to surrender. And for each soldier who even tried, there were many more who willingly killed themselves...