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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Tuesday, April 8th marked the 28th anniversary of the founding of OVERSEAS BRATS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>2. How can we help you?</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px;"> <i>Where can we get you involved?</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3. Brats Facebook groups where you can meet Brats living in the same State.</span></b></div>
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<li><b>These are possible! Ask Joe at: <a href="mailto:joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net">joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net</a> for ideas.</b></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Want to get a mini-reunion or reunion going? Ask: <a href="mailto:joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net">joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net</a> how. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">-Email: </span><a href="mailto:joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">joeosbpres@sbcglobal.net</a><span style="background-color: white;"> about "Brats Oktoberfest" or </span><span style="background-color: white;">"Homecoming 2016."</span></span></i></div>
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<li><b>Colorado Brats regional get-together, August 17, 2014 in Colorado Springs. </b></li>
<li><b>"Brats Oktoberfest," October 2-5, 2014 in New Braunfels, TX.</b></li>
<li><b>"Homecoming 2016" happening August 4-7, 2016 at the Hotel Elegante Conference & Event Center in Colorado Springs, CO.</b></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Former students and alumni on the email list who are not members of OVERSEAS BRATS (OSB): 6,404. (You are included in this count.)</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Current and past OSB members on this email list: 1,000. </b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>On Facebook: 'Likes' of: The Official OVERSEAS BRATS Fan Page = 3,029.</b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Members of the: Overseas Brats (</span><a href="http://www.overseasbrats.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">www.overseasbrats.com</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">) group = 3,530.</span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>247 DoDDS Educators receiving the email updates. Among these are 35 current/former members of OSB.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>203 Brats & Educators came to regional events in Albuquerque,Central Texas (San Antonio), Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, and Southern California in January-February-March 2014.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>84 Brats & Educators from 94 schools/bases/communities came to the 27th annual OSB gathering in Laughlin, NV, Oct. 10-13.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>200 Brats & Educators from 133 schools/bases/communities partied at "Brats Beach Bash" aka the tri-annual Homecoming 2013 in Daytona Beach, Aug. 8-11.</b></span></li>
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THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-9172018000831302422014-02-17T16:30:00.000-05:002014-02-17T16:30:20.580-05:00Declassified plans for the WW II invasion of Japan<b>General R. Clements, USAF Ret <br />16 Sept 2006</b><div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Deep in the recesses of the National Archives in Washington,D.C., hidden for nearly four decades lie thousands of pages of yellowing and dusty documents stamped "Top Secret". These documents, now declassified, are the plans for</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Operation Downfall</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">, the invasion of Japan during World War II. Only a few Americans in 1945 were aware of the elaborate plans that had been prepared for the Allied Invasion of the Japanese home islands. Even fewer today are aware of the defenses the Japanese had prepared to counter the invasion had it been launched. Operation Downfall was finalized during the spring and summer of 1945. It called for two massive military undertakings to be carried out in succession and aimed at the heart of the Japanese Empire.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span><div class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
<br />In the first invasion - code named <b>Operation Olympic</b> - American combat troops would land on Japan by amphibious assault during the early morning hours of November 1, 1945 - 50 years ago. Fourteen combat divisions of soldiers and Marines would land on heavily fortified and defended Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese home islands, after an unprecedented naval and aerial bombardment.</div>
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</td><td class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" width="77%">The second invasion on March 1, 1946 - code named <b>Operation Coronet</b> - would send at least 22 divisions against 1 million Japanese defenders on the main island of Honshu and the Tokyo Plain. It's goal: the unconditional surrender of Japan. With the exception of a part of the British Pacific Fleet, Operation Downfall was to be a strictly American operation. It called for using the entire Marine Corps, the entire Pacific Navy, elements of the 7th Army Air Force, the 8 Air Force (recently redeployed from</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="NormalText" height="279" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" width="72%">Admiral William Leahy estimated that there would be more than 250,000 Americans killed or wounded on Kyushu alone. General Charles Willoughby, chief of intelligence for General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Southwest Pacific, estimated American casualties would be one million men by the fall of 1946. Willoughby's own intelligence staff considered this to be a conservative estimate.<br /><br />During the summer of 1945, America had little time to prepare for such an endeavor, but top military leaders were in almost unanimous agreement that an invasion was necessary.<br /><br />While naval blockade and strategic bombing of Japan was considered to be useful, General MacArthur, for instance, did not believe a blockade would bring about an unconditional surrender. The advocates for invasion agreed that while a naval blockade chokes, it does not kill; and though strategic bombing might destroy cities, it leaves whole armies intact. So on May 25, 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after extensive deliberation, issued to General MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Army Air Force General Henry Arnold, the top secret directive to proceed with the invasion of Kyushu. The target date was after the typhoon season.<br /></td><td height="279" width="28%"><div align="center">
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President Truman approved the plans for the invasions July 24. Two days later, the United Nations issued the Potsdam Proclamation, which called upon Japan to surrender unconditionally or face total destruction. Three days later, the Japanese governmental news agency broadcast to the world that Japan would ignore the proclamation and would refuse to surrender. During this sane period it was learned -- via monitoring Japanese radio broadcasts -- that Japan had closed all schools and mobilized its schoolchildren, was arming its civilian population and was fortifying caves and building underground defenses.<br /><br />Operation Olympic called for a four pronged assault on Kyushu. Its purpose</div>
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was to seize and control the southern one-third of that island and establish naval and air bases, to tighten the naval blockade of the home islands, to destroy units of the main Japanese army and to support the later invasion of the Tokyo Plain.<div class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
The preliminary invasion would began October 27 when the 40th Infantry Division would land on a series of small islands west and southwest of Kyushu. At the same time, the 158th Regimental Combat Team would invade and</div>
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hundreds of Navy fighters, dive bombers and . torpedo planes would hit targets all over the island of Honshu. The 3,000 ship Fifth Fleet, under Admiral Raymond Spruance, would carry the invasion troops<br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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</td><td class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" width="76%">Several days before the invasion, the battleships, heavy cruisers and destroyers would pour thousands of tons of high explosives into the target areas. They would not cease the bombardment until after the land forces had been launched. During the early morning hours of November 1, the invasion would begin. Thousands of soldiers and Marines would pour ashore on beaches all along the eastern, southeastern, southern and western coasts of Kyushu. Waves of Helldivers, Dauntless dive bombers, Avengers, Corsairs, and Hellcats from 66 aircraft carriers would bomb, rocket and strafe enemy defenses, gun emplacements and troop concentrations along the beaches.</td></tr>
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The Eastern Assault Force consisting of the 25th, 33rd and 41st Infantry Divisions would land near Miyaski, at beaches called Austin, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, and Ford, and move inland to attempt to capture the city and its nearby airfield. The Southern Assault Force, consisting of the 1st Cavalry Division, the 43rd Division and Americal Division would land inside Ariake Bay at beaches labeled DeSoto, Dusenberg, Ease, Ford, and Franklin and attempt to capture Shibushi and the city of Kanoya and its airfield.</div>
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On the western shore of Kyushu, at beaches Pontiac, Reo, Rolls Royce, Saxon, Star, Studebaker, Stutz, Winston and Zephyr, The V Amphibious Corps would land the 2nd, 3rd and 5th Marine Divisions, sending half of its force inland to Sendai and the other half to the port city of Kagoshima.</div>
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On November 4, the Reserve Force, consisting of the 81st and 98th Infantry Divisions and the 11th Airborne Division, after feigning an attack of the island of Shikoku, would be landed -- if not needed elsewhere -- near Kaimondake, near the southernmost tip of Kagoshima Bay, at the beaches designated Locomobile, Lincoln, LaSalle, Hupmobile, Moon, Mercedes, Maxwell, Overland, Oldsmobile, Packard and Plymouth.</div>
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<b>Olympic</b> was not just a plan for invasion, but for conquest and occupation as well. It was expected to take four months to achieve its objective, with the three fresh American divisions per month to be landed in support of that operation if needed.</div>
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If all went well with <b>Olympic</b>, <b>Coronet</b> would be launched March 1, 1946. <b>Coronet</b> would be twice the size of <b>Olympic</b>, with as many as 28 divisions landing on Honshu.</div>
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All along the coast east of Tokyo, the American 1st Army would land the 5th, 7th, 27th, 44th, 86th, and 96th Infantry Divisions along with the 4th and 6th Marine Divisions.</div>
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At Sagami Bay, just south of Tokyo, the entire 8th and 10th Armies would strike north and east to clear the long western shore of Tokyo Bay and attempt to go as far as Yokohama. The assault troops landing south of Tokyo would be the 4th, 6th, 8th, 24th, 31st, 37th, 38th and 8th Infantry Divisions, along with the 13th and 20th Armored Divisions.</div>
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Captured Japanese documents and post war interrogations of Japanese military leaders disclose that information concerning the number of Japanese planes available for the defense of the home islands was dangerously in error.</div>
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During the sea battle at Okinawa alone, Japanese kamakaze aircraft sank 32 Allied ships and damaged more than 400 others. But during the summer of 1945, American top brass concluded that the Japanese had spent their air force since American bombers and fighters daily flew unmolested over Japan.</div>
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What the military leaders did not know was that by the end of July the Japanese had been saving all aircraft, fuel, and pilots in reserve, and had been feverishly building new planes for the decisive battle for their homeland.</div>
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</td><td class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" width="71%">As part of Ketsu-Go, the name for the plan to defend Japan -- the Japanese were building 20 suicide takeoff strips in southern Kyushu with underground hangars. They also had 35 camouflaged airfields and nine seaplane bases.<br />On the night before the expected invasion, 50 Japanese seaplane bombers, 100 former carrier aircraft and 50 land based army planes were to be launched in a suicide attack on the fleet.<br />
The Japanese had 58 more airfields in Korea, western Honshu and Shikoku, which also were to be used for massive suicide attacks.<br />
Allied intelligence had established that the Japanese had no more than 2,500 aircraft of which they guessed 300 would be deployed in suicide attacks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td width="69%"><br />In August 1945, however, unknown to Allied intelligence, the Japanese still had 5, 651 army and 7,074 navy aircraft, for a total of 12, 725 planes of all types. Every village had some type of aircraft manufacturing activity. Hidden in mines, railway tunnels, under viaducts and in basements of department stores, work was being done to construct new planes.<br />
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Additionally, the Japanese were building newer and more effective models of the Okka, a rocket-propelled bomb much like the German V-1, but flown by a suicide pilot.</div>
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When the invasion became imminent, Ketsu-Go called for a fourfold aerial plan of attack to destroy up to 800 Allied ships.</div>
While Allied ships were approaching Japan, but still in the open seas, an initial force of 2,000 army and navy fighters were to fight to the death to control the skies over Kyushu. A second force of 330 navy combat pilots were to attack the main body of the task force to keep it from using its fire support and air cover to protect the troop carrying transports. While these two forces were engaged, a third force of 825 suicide planes was to hit the American transports.<br />
As the invasion convoys approached their anchorages, another 2,000 suicide planes were to be launched in waves of 200 to 300, to be used in hour by hour attacks.<br />
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By mid-morning of the first day of the invasion, most of the American land-based aircraft would be forced to return to their bases, leaving the defense against the suicide planes to the carrier pilots and the shipboard gunners.</div>
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Carrier pilots crippled by fatigue would have to land time and time again to rearm and refuel. Guns would malfunction from the heat of continuous firing and ammunition would become scarce. Gun crews would be exhausted by nightfall, but still the waves of kamikaze would continue. With the fleet hovering Japanese planned to coordinate their air strikes with attacks from the 40 <span class="NormalText">remaining submarines from the Imperial off the beaches, all remaining Japanese aircraft would be committed to nonstop suicide attacks, which the Japanese</span></div>
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<span class="MenuText" style="font-size: 16px;">With regard to the 12,700 Japanese aircraft available to strike our Army and Navy forces. I would like to tell you of my first hand encounter with the so called strike force. When I flew into Miazuguhara Air Force Base in Kumigaya, Japan on 6 September 1945, I together with Agents of the 441 CIC Detachment found over two thousand new Japanese military aircraft of various types bombers, fighters etc. The only problem they were only fuselages, not a single engine anywhere to be found Upon concentrated investigation it was determined Japan was unable to produce the raw materials to build any engines. Interesting, they had thousands of airplanes that couldn't fly.</span></div>
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<span class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">hoped could be sustained for 10 days. The Navy -- some armed with Long Lance torpedoes with a range of 20 miles -- when the invasion fleet was 180 miles off Kyushu</span><div class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
<span class="NormalText" style="font-size: 16px;">The Imperial Navy had 23 destroyers and two cruisers which were operational. These ships were to be used to counterattack the American invasion. A number of the destroyers were to be beached at the last minute to be used as anti-invasion gun platforms.</span></div>
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<span class="NormalText" style="font-size: 16px;">Once offshore, the invasion fleet would be forced to defend not only against the attacks from the air, but would also be confronted with suicide attacks from sea. Japan had established a suicide naval attack unit of midget submarines, human torpedoes and exploding motorboats</span></div>
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The goal of the Japanese was to shatter the invasion before the landing. The Japanese were convinced the Americans would back off or become so demoralized that they would then accept a less-than-unconditional surrender and a more honorable and face-saving end for the Japanese.</div>
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The goal of the Japanese was to shatter the invasion before the landing. The Japanese were convinced the Americans would back off or become so demoralized that they would then accept a less-than-unconditional surrender and a more honorable and face-saving end for the Japanese.</div>
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But as horrible as the battle of Japan would be off the beaches, it would be on Japanese soil that the American forces would face the most rugged and fanatical defense encountered during the war.</div>
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Throughout the island-hopping Pacific campaign, Allied troops had always out numbered the Japanese by 2 to 1 and sometimes 3 to 1. In Japan it would be different. By virtue of a combination of cunning, guesswork, and brilliant military reasoning, a number of Japan's top military leaders were able to deduce, not only when, but where, the United States would land its first invasion forces.</div>
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Facing the 14 American divisions landing at Kyushu would be 14 Japanese divisions, 7 independent mixed brigades, 3 tank brigades and thousands of naval troops. On Kyushu the odds would be 3 to 2 in favor of the Japanese, with 790,000 enemy defenders against 550,000 Americans. This time the bulk of the Japanese defenders would not be the poorly trained and ill-equipped labor battalions that the Americans had faced in the earlier campaigns.</div>
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The Japanese defenders would be the hard core of the home army. These troops were well-fed and well equipped.</div>
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Japan's network of beach defenses consisted of offshore mines, thousands of suicide scuba divers attacking landing craft, and mines planted on the beaches. Coming ashore, the American Eastern amphibious assault forces at Miyazaki would face three Japanese divisions, and two others poised for counterattack. Awaiting the Southeastern attack force at Ariake Bay was an entire division and at least one mixed infantry brigade.</div>
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On the western shores of Kyushu, the Marines would face the most brutal opposition. Along the invasion beaches would be the three Japanese divisions , a tank brigade, a mixed infantry brigade and an artillery command. Components of two divisions would also be poised to launch counterattacks.</div>
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If not needed to reinforce the primary landing beaches, the American Reserve Force would be landed at the base of Kagoshima Bay November 4, where they would be confronted by two mixed infantry brigades, parts of two infantry divisions and thousands of naval troops.</div>
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All along the invasion beaches, American troops would face coastal batteries, anti-landing obstacles and a network of heavily fortified pillboxes, bunkers, and underground fortresses. As Americans waded ashore, they would face intense artillery and mortar fire as they worked their way through concrete rubble and barbed-wire entanglements arranged to funnel them into the muzzles of these Japanese guns.</div>
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</td><td width="63%">On the beaches and beyond would be hundreds of Japanese machine gun positions, beach mines, booby traps, trip-wire mines and sniper units. Suicide units concealed in "spider holes" would engage the troops as they passed nearby. In the heat of battle, Japanese infiltration units would be sent to reap havoc in the American lines by cutting phone and communication lines. Some of the Japanese troops would be in American uniform, English-speaking Japanese officers were assigned to break in on American radio traffic to call off artillery fire, to order retreats and to further confuse troops. Other infiltration with demolition</td></tr>
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charges strapped on their chests or backs would attempt to blow up American tanks, artillery pieces and ammunition stores as they were unloaded ashore.<br /><div class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
Beyond the beaches were large artillery pieces situated to bring down a curtain of fire on the beach. Some of these large guns were mounted on railroad tracks running in and out of caves protected by concrete and steel.</div>
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<tr><td width="69%">The battle for Japan would be won by what Simon Bolivar Buckner, a lieutenant general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, had called "Prairie Dog Warfare." This type of fighting was almost unknown to the ground troops in Europe and the Mediterranean. It was peculiar only to the soldiers and Marines who fought the Japanese on islands all over the Pacific -- at Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Prairie Dog Warfare was a battle for yards, feet and sometimes inches. It was brutal, deadly and dangerous form of</td><td bgcolor="#000000" width="31%"><div align="center" class="MenuText" style="color: #c7994e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">
The battle for Japan would be won by what Simon Bolivar Buckner, a lieutenant general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, had called "Prairie Dog Warfare."</div>
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</td><td height="278" width="36%">In the mountains behind the Japanese beaches were underground networks of caves, bunkers, command posts and hospitals connected by miles of tunnels with dozens of entrances and exits. Some of these complexes could hold up to 1,000 troops.<br />
In addition to the use of poison gas and bacteriological warfare (which the Japanese had experimented with), Japan mobilized its citizenry.<br />
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had become a part of the National Volunteer Combat Force. They were armed with ancient rifles, lunge mines, satchel charges, Molotov cocktails and one-shot black powder mortars. Others were armed with swords, long bows, axes and bamboo spears. The civilian units were to be used in nighttime attacks, hit and run maneuvers, delaying actions and massive suicide charges at the weaker American positions.<br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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The invasion of Japan never became a reality because on August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was exploded over Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Within days the war with Japan was at a close.</td><td bgcolor="#000000" class="MenuText" style="color: #c7994e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;" width="31%"><div align="center">
At the early stage of the invasion, 1,000 Japanese and American soldiers would be dying every hour.</div>
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Had these bombs not been dropped and had the invasion been launched as scheduled, combat casualties in Japan would have been at a minimum of the tens of thousands. Every foot of Japanese soil would have been paid for by Japanese and American lives.</div>
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One can only guess at how many civilians would have committed suicide in their homes or in futile mass military attacks.</div>
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In retrospect, the 1 million American men who were to be the casualties of the invasion, were instead lucky enough to survive the war.</div>
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Intelligence studies and military estimates made 50 years ago, and not latter-day speculation, clearly indicate that the battle for Japan might well have resulted in the biggest blood-bath in the history of modern warfare.</div>
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Far worse would be what might have happened to Japan as a nation and as a culture. When the invasion came, it would have come after several months of fire bombing all of the remaining Japanese cities. <b class="Heading3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cost in human life that resulted from the two atomic blasts would be small in comparison to the total number of Japanese lives that would have been lost by this aerial devastation.</b></div>
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Japan today could be divided much like Korea and Germany.</div>
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The world was spared the cost of <b>Operation Downfall</b>, however, because Japan formally surrendered to the United States September 2, 1945, and World War II was over.</div>
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The aircraft carriers, cruisers and transport ships scheduled to carry the invasion troops to Japan, ferried home American troops in a gigantic operation called <b>Magic Carpet</b>.</div>
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In the fall of 1945, in the aftermath of the war, few people concerned themselves with the invasion plans. Following the surrender, the classified documents, maps, diagrams and appendices for <b>Operation Downfall</b>were packed away in boxes and eventually stored at the National Archives. These plans that called for the invasion of Japan paint a vivid description of what might have been one of the most horrible campaigns in the history of man. The fact that the story of the invasion of Japan is locked up in the National Archives and is not told in our history books is something for which all Americans can be thankful.</div>
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I had the distinct privilege of being assigned as later commander of the 8090th PACUSA detach, 20th AAF, and one of the personal pilots of then Brig General Fred Irving USMA 17 when he was commanding general of Western Pacific Base Command. We had a brand new C-46F tail number 8546. It was different from the rest of the C-46 line in that it was equipped with Hamilton Hydromatic props whereas the others had Curtis electrics. On one ofthe many flights we had 14 Generals and Admirals aboard on an inspection trip to Saipan and Tinian. Notable aboard was General Thomas C. Handy, who had signed the operational order to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. President Truman's orders were verbal . He never signed an order to drop the bombs. On this particular flight, about halfway from Guam to Tinian, a full Colonel (General Handy's aide) came up forward and told me that General Handy would like to come up and look around. I told him, Hell yes, he can fly the airplane if he wants to, sir</div>
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"I asked him if he ever regretted dropping the bombs. His answer was, Certainly not. We saved a million lives on both sides by doing it."</div>
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a<span class="NormalText" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">bout General Irving. He was one of the finest gentleman I ever met. He was the oldest living graduate of West Point when he passed on at 100+. He was one of three Generals who had the honor of being both the Supe and Com of West Point. I think the other gentleman were BG Sladen clliSS of 1890 and BG Stewart Class of 1896<br />I am very happy the invasion never came off because if it had I don't think I would be writing this today. We were to provide air support for the boots on the ground guys. The small arms fire would have been devastating and lethal as hell to fly through .. Just think what it would have been like on the ground .....<br /><br />But, C'est !a vive. You do what needs to be done. You don't act like gutless wonders and carry peace signs around</span> ....<div>
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THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-50340743282685464482014-01-05T21:48:00.001-05:002014-01-05T21:48:23.145-05:00ROCHEFORT AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL 2013 REUNION<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6av5_5vz5Wg?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>
Rochefort American High School was an American high school in a military facility at Rochefort, France.The School was far from the military bases, so the students lived in a dormitory.<br />
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We would stay through the week and then go home to the base on the weekends. We would commute on military buses from different military bases," Lance Burris, the group's President said. "They called us 'military brats.' It was a unique way to grow up."<br />
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The school building where we attended was once the headquarters of Napoleon before his exile. A moat is near the school building that had been blocked off so the French could build ships during World War II. "The moat had been drained but for the past five years they've been building a replica of the ship of Lafayette," Burris said. "We hope to travel to see the ship in 2015. They're going to sail the ship the path Lafayette took up the East Coast. Rochefort High School is on one of the sails of the ship." The frigate Hermione was linked to the Marquis de Lafayette. The original ship was built in 1779. It embarked on a trip from Rochefort to Boston in 1780.<br />
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Rochefort American High School was closed in 1958 when all US military bases were closed in France. Since then, every two years, those who attended the HS get together for a reunion somewhere in the United States. Theprevious reunion was held in Reno, Nev. This year it was held in the Indianapolis area.<br />
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THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-90601996226568903182013-11-28T09:46:00.001-05:002013-11-28T09:46:35.485-05:00GIVING THANKS<b><span style="color: #17365d; font-family: "Edwardian Script ITC"; font-size: 36pt;">I thank God for my family, for my good friends , and for all the good we have received this year..... mj</span></b><br />
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Thanks Pat....THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-35071899566024737182013-10-08T01:23:00.003-04:002014-01-05T21:43:38.117-05:00Rochefort American High School - 2013 Reunion<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6av5_5vz5Wg?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>
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Rochefort American High School was an American high school in a military facility at Rochefort, France.The School was far from the military bases, so the students lived in a dormitory.<br />
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We would stay through the week and then go home to the base on the weekends. We would commute on military buses from different military bases," Lance Burris, the group's President said. "They called us 'military brats.' It was a unique way to grow up."<br />
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The school building where we attended was once the headquarters of Napoleon before his exile. A moat is near the school building that had been blocked off so the French could build ships during World War II. "The moat had been drained but for the past five years they've been building a replica of the ship of Lafayette," Burris said. "We hope to travel to see the ship in 2015. They're going to sail the ship the path Lafayette took up the East Coast. Rochefort High School is on one of the sails of the ship." The frigate Hermione was linked to the Marquis de Lafayette. The original ship was built in 1779. It embarked on a trip from Rochefort to Boston in 1780.<br />
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Rochefort American High School was closed in 1958 when all US military bases were closed in France. Since then, every two years, those who attended the HS get together for a reunion somewhere in the United States. Theprevious reunion was held in Reno, Nev. This year it was held in the Indianapolis area.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By Brenda L. Holmes</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SPEEDWAY — Most people have their class reunions near their childhood home. They go back to see their old haunts and maybe a few family members after visiting with high school classmates.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br />Plainfield’s Lance Burris has a different experience every time his school meets for a reunion.<br /><br />Burris attended Rochefort American High School, which was an American high school in a military facility at Rohefort, France. He attended the school for his freshman, sophomore, and junior years of high school.<br /><br />"My dad was in the Army and was stationed at a base which was 100 miles from where I went to school,” Burris said. “Because it was so far from the base, we lived in a dormitory. We would stay through the week and then go home to the base on the weekends.”<br /><br />He said the experience helped him to mature earlier and become pretty self-sufficient.<br /><br />“We would commute on military buses from different military bases,” he said. “They called us ‘military brats.’ It was a unique way to grow up.”<br /><br />The school building where they attended was once the headquarters of Napoleon before his exile. Near the school building there was a moat that had been blocked off so the French could build ships during World War II. <br /><br />“The moat had been drained but for the past five years they've been building a replica of the ship of Lafayette,” Burris said. “We hope to travel to see the ship in 2015. They're going to sail the ship the path Lafayette took up the East Coast. Rochefort High School is on one of the sails of the ship.”<br /><br />The frigate Hermione was linked to the Marquis de Lafayette. The original ship was built in 1779. It embarked on a trip from Rochefort to Boston in 1780.<br /><br />“Our alumni hope to be there to greet the ship,” Burris said.<br /><br />RAHS closed in 1958 when all military bases were closed in France. Every two years, those who attended the school get together for a reunion some place in the United States. The last time there was a reunion it was held in Reno, Nev. This year it was held in the Indianapolis area.<br /><br />Many of the students went on to serve in the military, including Burris who served in the U.S. Army.<br /><br />Burris is currently serving as president of the Rochefort American High School Alumni. He decided he wanted to invite all of his former classmates to Indiana to experience the Circle City. Planned this weekend was a golf tournament at Fort Harrison, a dinner at St. Elmo downtown, a tour of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and museum, a guided tour of Indiana War Memorial, and a Yellow Buggy Carriage tour of downtown Indianapolis.<br /><br />Many of the reunion activities took place at the Hilton Indianapolis Hotel/Suites where most of the reunion attendees stayed. The RAHS alumni do several activities while they're together. One of the traditions is to donate books to a local library wherever they have their reunion. This year, the group donated books to Indianapolis Public School 34.<br /><br />Burris said he can remember traveling to France when the family was stationed there.<br /><br />“We went on a ship out of New York,” he said. “It took eight days to cross. The ship we went on was a converted Army transfer ship.”<br /><br />His parents were Avis and Ruth Burris. His father served in WW II and Korea.<br /><br />Even though Burris spent most of his high school days in France, he ended up graduating from Horace Mann High School in 1957. <br /><br />Burris was born in Kannapolis, N.C., and lived in several other places while growing up. He lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, and California.<br /><br />After serving in the military, he went on to serve 23 years in law enforcement with the Hobart Police Department. He retired as the chief of detectives there in 1988.<br /><br />He and his family moved to Plainfield in 1993 so he could become an instructor at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.<br /><br />“I still work there as a master instructor,” Burris said.<br /><br />He and his wife, Nancy, have two grown children, Brad and Brian Burris.<br /><br />The Rochefort American High School Alumni Association has its own website where they share information on alumni and upcoming events. The website is www.rochefortfranceahs.org.<br /><br /><b>- See more at: http://flyergroup.com/local/x862171663/Plainfield-man-organizes-special-reunion#sthash.CKlePwFA.dpuf</b></span>THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-31896509130815868912013-09-30T10:42:00.000-04:002013-09-30T10:42:17.958-04:00WHY I MOVED TO FLORIDA<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xKy2lLNQYrI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-88609835958425122612013-09-13T20:59:00.000-04:002013-09-13T20:59:37.286-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Great video of a spontaneous victory parade in Honolulu in 1945. Take a look at this video. Absolutely fabulous! Notice the cars and jeeps, youth. The guys in khaki or gray shirts and black ties are Navy officers or chiefs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This guy really captured a moment in history! (You can hear Jimmy Durante singing "I'll be Seeing You" in the background too.) This is a super video of a time past. We need to remember and be grateful. Check out the color fidelity. It's not bad for 1945. Nothing will ever compare with Kodak film.</span></div>
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I have over an hour of beautiful Kodachome 16mm movie footage filmed by my Dad on VJ Day and the three weeks following, which was always intended to be expanded into a documentary about The Day World War II Ended, if funding could be found. Recently I discovered Kickstarter, a crowd sourcing website that provides a platform for raising the funding necessary to accomplish this end.THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-62195438852309691062013-07-08T05:48:00.004-04:002013-07-08T05:51:20.510-04:002913 RAHS REUNION APPLICATION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Dear reunion friends,</b>There are two issues that need to be addressed during this note I write to you:<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>First: </b></span>In going over the business meeting agenda there is a point I want to make: The committee appointed to research and revise, if needed, the issue on “Alumni Group Guidelines” is hereby disbanded and the topic will be “tabled indefinitely.” We will continue to use an abbreviated version of Roberts Rules of Order at our business meetings.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Second: </b></span>Plans for the Indianapolis Reunion 2013 are in place and waiting for your Conference and Hotel registrations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please get you Conference Fee sent to:</span><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clara Dostal Reynolds, </b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>418 Playa Blanca, </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">... and put “2013 Conference Fee” on the memo line. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>You can register at the hotel online at :</b> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/I/INDDNHFFAHS-<br />20130925/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>or call 317-972-0680. Hilton Hotel and Suites.</b><br /><br />In order to arrange transportation, meal, tours and dance considerations you should make your hotel reservations by the dead line of August 26th.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Thought for the day: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Has it occurred to you that every year we are reduces in numbers by the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ageing process? It pulls at my heart every time we lose one of our classmates as well as that of our classmate spouses. That is why I keep on harping about making it to the reunions. It is every other year and in this time frame of our lives that is a long period of time in which some of us<br />will be called away.<br /><br /><b>I am attaching the reunion registration for your convenience.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would protect you with my life.”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Lance M. Burris</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> RAHS President</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Class of 1957</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br /><br />“See you at the reunion, don’t make me come looking for you!”</span></div>
THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799232271429204065.post-3071447088756574782013-06-17T07:22:00.003-04:002013-06-17T07:23:31.271-04:00Indianapolis Reunion - Sept 26-29, 2013<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Click on the link below to see attached Docs from RAHSA President, Lance Burris<br />Send your application and check to Clara Dostal Reynolds, with RAHS 2013 Reunion on the memo line. Clara's address is: 418 Playa Blanca, Santa Maria, CA 93455. </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">James Cagney and Bob Hope at a Friar's Club Meeting back when actors were real performers. Bob Hope was 52 and James Cagney was 56. </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br />The year was 1955.</b><br /><b>For the young folks, here is something you<i>’ve</i> probably never seen before and,<br />unfortunately, you may never see again.</b><br /><b>For us older folks, this is the best of the best, and we had it for many years! This is a side of these two entertainers you hardly ever saw, but it shows you their enormous talent. Bob Hope, the best of comedians, and James Cagney, mostly cast as the bad guy, a gangster in the movies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has occurred to me that I wonder if you are thinking the same thing I am. If our minds are running in the same direction since we lived and went to school together in Rochefort? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wonder if because we were such a close knit group of classmates whether we commuted to the school every day or if we were staying in the dorm and going home on the weekends; Sharing clothes, love and laughter in the spirit of youth; I just wonder if being exposed to life on our own at such an early age had anything to do with what we have become today. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If being rotated back to the states after spending those learning years in a foreign country was a shock to our future endeavors. For some of us it was the most time we had lived in one spot in our parent’s military careers. I believe “You are where you’ve been.” Yes, it’s true I am a realist, but not to the point of incompetency. I realize our lives and society has changed since Rochefort. However, shades of purple and white and a rocket’s trail still hang loose in my mind and heart and that can be as real as life. Once a Rocket, always a Rocket. <br /><br />By this time I know you are wondering; what is Lance getting to; in what direction is this conversation headed? Well, here it is; <br /><br />I had a close friend several years ago and at Christmas time he would always say to me, “I don’t know how many Christmas’ I have left.” In the month following Christmas and after one of those statements………he died. Bob left behind so many memories that would never be shared again with anyone. I am just so thankful that I had the fortune of spending his last Christmas with him. Others were not so fortunate as they didn’t take the time to spend with him before he passed away. <br /><br />And so it goes my friends and classmates; People with whom I have amassed so many lasting memories; people whom I shall never forget and hope not to be forgotten. How many Christmas’ do we have? How many reunions do we pass up until it is too late. Why do we procrastinate and say, “I’ll try to make it next year when next year may never come? <br /><br />Don’t pass up this opportunity to meet again with your friends, some that you may only see once in two years or perhaps have not seen since leaving Rochefort. You can take many trips around the world; to far away places with strange sounding names, but I dare say that none will be so delightful and fulfilling than to re-visit a part of your youth that remembers you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know that Rochefort is not the only place you have amassed memories of, but it has to be right up there with some of the best. Please take the time to come to the 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana reunion because we don’t know how many Christmas’ we have left……………..only God does. Date: 26-28 September</span></span>THE MJR REPORThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799759172492320310noreply@blogger.com0