Marines Batter
Way Into Shuri
Castle
Br LIEF ERICKSON
GUAM, May 30— (/P) —United
States Marines stormed their way
yesterday inside the moated medi
eval castle of Shuri, the keystone
strongpoint in the center and
flanked the Japanese defense line
on southern Okinawa.
It was the former headquarters
of the Japanese commander on
the embattled island.
Some Leathernecks of the First
Marine Division, surprising some
of the Japanese by swimming the
moat surrounding the fortress, un
corked the dramatic drive, while
Yokohama Aflame
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hama Thursday, Saturday and
Tuesday. Thirty-three giant fire
makers with crews totaling more
than three hundred fifty failed to
return in the past week’s record
fire raids. Thirty-one were lost in
i two night attacks on Tokyo, and
two in Tuesday’s daylight raid for
which Iwo based Mustangs gave
[ fighter coverage.
Two Mustang pilots who ac
companied the four hundred fifty
Superfortresses on the Yokohama
raid stood off one hundred forty
Jap interceptors and shot down or
damaged fifty-four, said that Yo
kohama’s industrial area was a
seething bed of flames.
Mt. Fujiyama (Fu|i-San) near Tokyo is the highest and most
sacred of Japanese peaks. Its 12,400-foot crest is seen 100
miles at sea. High mountains wind through most of *he
islands which, themselves, may be above o submarine »on^e
other Marines of the Sixth Divi
sion on the west coast invested all
of the rubble-strewn city of Naha
north of the main harbor.
Whether the Devildog company
which fought inside Shuri castle
held its position or later had to
fall back was not made clear from
available front reports.
Today’s fleet communique an
nouncing the ground successes on
the west coast and the center line,
also raised from seventy-seven to
one hundred fifteen the number
of enemy suicide planes destroyed
Sunday night and Monday morn
ing during the attacks on Ameri
can shipping. The planes sank one
light naval unit and damaged
BOYS PEDAL WATER
AVONDALE, Colo.—</P)—Boys
who tired of hand-pumping water
for the Avondale school rigged a
bicycle to the pump and now take
turns pedaling water into a tank.
The apparatus operates like a
gymnasium exerciser.
twelve others.
Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima
which escorted more than four
hundred fifty Superfortresses on
Tuesday’s 3200-ton fire bomb as
sault on Yokohama downed 26 out
of 140 interceptors and probably
destroyed ten others and damaged
eighteen the communique dis
closed.
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strongest military and industrial
power also in Asia/*
Mrs. Luce said 44Russian soldiers
by the thousands and Russian
generals by the dozens deserted
the Red Army to fight beside the
Nazis. They of course, were de
ceived in their search for freedom,
just as deceived as the German
soldiers who deserted to the Rus
sians.”
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heart
felt thanks to all our friends who
so thoughtfully tendered sympathy
and condolence in our recent be
reavement on the death of our son
Craig. L. D. Bronson and Family
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Men And Dogs
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I Guard, assisted by Bob Oomak,
• veteran native hunter, with an
i omiak and outboard motor search
led without avail, through the
'heavy fog. surrounded by treach
' erous icebergs which were con
stantly moving. After five hours
they returned to shore, late Mon
i day evening.
Early Tuesday morning, as soon
as flying was possible, the Army
Search and Rescue plane took off
and finally located Tommy Dal-j
quist and his team 14 miles east
of Nome and about four miles off
shore. The plane was able to make
a landing, and found not only the
lost Dalquist team but also Alfred
and Abbot Moses with another
team.
Tommy Dalquist was brought
in and the Coast Guard, upon be
ing notified immediately gathered
their crew together and headed
out to sea again.
The Search and Rescue plane
directed the course of the thirty
foot skin craft through leads in
he ice, for three hours, to the ice
flow on which the hunters and
RICHARD LEES RETURN
FROM FAIRBANKS
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee whc
have been visiting in Fairbanks
with their son Allan Lee and fam
ily returned to Nome yesterday
enroute to their mine in Solomon.
Audiences of 34,174,394 service
men and women attended 193,540
moving picture shows in USO
clubs in the four years of their
existence, according to the Nation
al War Fund which finances the
work of USO.
dog teams were located. The two
dog teams of twelve dogs, two
heavy sleds and about 125 pounds
of equipment were taken on board
along with Alfred and Abbot
Moses and safely landed at Cape
Nome.
Lt. (jg) Isberg and his crew of
ten men then slowly and carefully
wedged their way through the ice
to Nome, having been out for six
hours on the rescue trip.
In the days before the airplanes
these men might have drifted far
out to sea and never been heard
of again. Frequently however, the
floating ice comes back to the
shore with the changing wind and
they have a chance to escape.
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