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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...
...fighting men doing the job had to face a curtain of fire from rifles, rockets, machine guns, 20-and 40-mm. guns and mortars. The balance of the enemy remnants fought with the same stubbornness on Oroku Peninsula...
However exaggerated Yenan's claims might be, it was clear that their forces had seeped across North China, from the Yellow River to the Shantung Peninsula and down the coast. Though they had been poorly armed in the past (they even used wooden cannon-see cut-which they actually fired from), they now seemed better armed. They had already begun a surreptitious investment of Shanghai, China's biggest city and biggest port, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, control of which carries with it control of most of southern China...
...Okinawa. In a quick amphibious maneuver, the Marines reached around the enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the Ryukus. Army troops on the east turned to free Baten Harbor. This week the 7th Infantry Division cut off the Chinen Peninsula in one of the swiftest advances of the campaign. Ahead lay flat, open land where the Japanese had little chance for effective defense...
...next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada. They located it 200 to 300 miles north-northwest of where it is now shown on maps...