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...Guam, Saipan and other islands long conquered by the U.S., Jap soldiers holed up in the hills still surrender by twos and threes, only occasionally by squads. But on Okinawa, even before the battle had ended, there were some surrenders in platoon strength, a few in greater numbers. Japanese prisoner compounds were populated by the hundreds...
Some few men escaped the married state but not by much. In fact, Ernie Hyne (our late platoon leader) has reconsidered and in a few weeks there will be another person waiting at the end of the pay line. (As a service to all newly arrived brides we announce that the next payday will be Monday 16 July...
...that it is an Anglo-American organization like all other divisions and sections of Supreme Headquarters; . . . that it is a unique organization in this or any other war, being mixed "British-American, civilian-military, operating at all echelons, from the Chief of Staff's desk to the platoon commander's foxhole; that TIME'S reference is disturbing and offensive not only to the hundreds of non-OWI members of the organization but equally to those many OWI members who have worked long and hard to achieve effective integration of an Anglo-American civilian-military organization...
...officers, counting up recent gains, judged that the enemy's final stand could not be far off. Meanwhile the 281st Signal Platoon had discovered yet a new enemy. Armed with automatic shotguns, the signalmen were out hunting falcons. The falcons had been maliciously pouncing on U.S. carrier pigeons...
...here on the roughest front the 7th Division has yet bumped into in its four major operations, a platoon of doughboys from the 184th listened while I read to them your inspiring write-up on the President's death [TIME, April...