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Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...
Damages. In Washington, the House of Representatives reviewed the matter of an unidentified G.I. who tossed an egg out of a troop-train window, recommended that $4,339.20 damages be paid to Michael C. Donatell of Tintah, Minn., who happened to get smacked in the eye with...
...itself and the public. On this narrow ground and in a self-righteous mood, the Army last week disaccredited four correspondents who had visited Berlin without permission, and also issued a new censorship code. The new code not only disallowed all stories about such things as battle tactics and troop movements which might give information to the Japanese. But it also forbade "unauthenticated, inaccurate or false reports, misleading statements and rumors" (thereby setting the Army up as sole judge of the truth) and "reports likely to injure the morale of the Allied forces or the relations between the Allied nations...
...Freights. The mountains of westbound scheduled freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
Thus, for probably the first time in a Pacific amphibious operation, the Navy had suffered more casualties than the troop units it had landed for battle. The reason: intense and repeated Jap air attacks on the swarms of ships off Okinawa. The chief method of attack: the Japs' frantic, fanatic Kamikaze Corps' suicide crash dives on U.S. ships (TIME, April...