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CYRUS: Adair Countians in peace treaty/occupation of Japan, Sept. 1945 In a brief treaty-signing ceremony on September 2, 1945, World War Two formally came to end, just a few months short of four years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. These terse paragraphs appeared in the September 5, 1945 edition of the Adair County News. under the headline ":" Peace Restored to War Torn World "...Minutes later, from the White House where Japanese warlords once asserted they would dictate their own terms, President Truman broadcast: "'We shall not forget Pearl Harbor. The Japanese militarists will not forget the USS Missouri.'" An Adair Countian was on board the USS Missouri to make sure everything went according to plan when General MacArthur & Fleet Admiral Nimitz of the U.S. and Shigemitsu & Umezu of Japan signed the peace treaty. From the September 12, 1945 edition of the News: Columbia Sailor Takes Part In Jap SurrenderIn this same issue of the News appeared an all-too-brief article about another Adair Countian and her derring-do in unoccupied Japan. Under the headline appeared just two short paragraphs: Lt. Eva Fraser Helps Rescue Prisoners of War The April 14, 1942 edition of the News stated that she "volunteered as a Red Cross Reserve Nurse as soon as war was declared." She was commissioned as 2nd Lt in the U.S. Army in mid-April, 1942, and was "scheduled for foreign service at once." Lt. Fraser remained in Japan until January 2, 1946, when she boarded the USS Alcoa Polaris, bound for America and separation from the Armed Service. A number of Adair Countians were also in the vanguard of the U.S. occupation of Japan. The first US ships entered Japanese waters on August 27, 1945 and some of these ships then entered Tokyo Bay the following day, August 28. It was reported in the September 12 issue of the News that PhM1c Harreld L. Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Moss of Gradyville, disembarked from the USS Grimes on August 30 at Yokasuka Naval Base and arrived in Tokyo later that day as part of the U.S. occupation force. Two other brief articles stated that Lewis A. Brown, S2c, of Breeding, Ky., the son of Sam J. Brown, was aboard the USS Quincy, docked in Tokyo Bay as part of the occupation force; and that James H. Sanders, S1c, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Audy Sanders, of Gradyville, was aboard the USS Alabama, a "part of the powerful Pacific Fleet completing the first stages of the occupation of Japan." An earlier report (August 29 issue) noted that the USS Alabama in one month's time had, with S1c Sanders able assistance, "raided the Japanese mainland twice, bombarded a Jap-held island north of Okinawa and rode unscathed through a violent typhoon" and had survived a Kamikaze attack as well. The September 19th edition stated that Pfc. Luther R. Willis, a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division, was among the first American soldiers to enter Tokyo. The News somewhat wryly noted that Pfc. Willis, a graduate of Columbia High School, had "reached Tokyo via the hard way, New Guinea and the Philippines." The article further noted that "Because of his continuous combat service [Pfc. Willis] is authorized to wear three Bronze Battle Stars and one Arrowhead." When Pfc. Willis arrived in Tokyo "the hard way," he had not yet reached his 20th birthday. This edition also mentioned that Robert L. Brockman, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Brockman of Columbia, had disembarked from the USS St. Mary's at Yokahoma, Japan on Sept. 2nd and that he expected to be in Tokyo shortly. An October 10 entry stated Pfc. Brockman had spent 26 moths overseas, that he had credit for four combat campaigns, and that he had been awarded the Bronze Star. CYRUSCentral Ohio Bureau Chief This story was posted on 2005-09-02 01:00:00
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