Evening star., 1945-08-30
Sworms Of Porotroops, Marines
And Sailors Moving Into Japan;
Occupation Going Sp|endid|y'
Atsugi AirfieId Taken
Over. Flag Is Raised
Above Yokosuku
By the Associated Press,

}ATSUGI AIRFIELD, near To-
kyo, Aug. 30,-Gen. Macarthur
arrived in Japan today and set
up headquarters in Yokohama as
Japan's military ruler.
Paratroopers and seaborne Ma
rines and sailors, hand-picked to
remind Japan of the invasion of the
Philippines, sWarmed out of the
skies and in from the sea in an I'M
broken stream.
They took over Atsugi Airfeld, Is
miles from Tokyo; ran up the Amer
iSan flag over Yokosuka Naval Base,
Japan's second largest; rode by Jap
anese truck into Yokohoma, port
of Tokyo where the occupation force
will establish general headquarters,
and began evacuating prisoners of
war from "a black he'll hole" where
"bestial beatings were common"
Occupation Going Splendidly."
The occupation is going splendid
ly," Gen. Macarthur said. Yanks
were moving in an orderly fashion
without bloodshed" and he said the
japanese appeared to be acting in
good faith.
The occupation by troops in full
battle dress and ready for any
contingency was eight hours old
when Gen. Macarthur stepped onto
Atsugi Airdrome from his shining
silver C-54 transport "Bataan" at
2 pm. Il am. Eastern war time).
The supreme Allied commander
landed amidst cheering paratroop-
erS of the 11th Airborne Division,
who began pouring from an unend-
ing stream of transports at 6 am.
Is pm. Wednesday, Eastern war
time) simultaneous with landings
at Yokosuka, led by the 4th Marine
Regiment.
The 4th Marines, rushed to the
Philippines from China, were one of
the heroic outfits in the fight for
Manila Bay and stood to the last
on Corregidor. Today's landing was
made by reactivated regiment.
Helped Clear Out Japs.
The 11th Airborne Division helped
Gen. Macarthur clear 100000 Japa-
nese out of the Philippines and was
victorious at Nichols Field where
Japan struck its first blow at the
islands.
Paratroop units drove in japanese
trucks, duly saluted by enemy Off
GERS, to occupy Yokohama, miles
closer to Tokyo than Yokosuka. This
was the first step toward juncture
between the sea and airborne forces
whose original landings were made
18 miles apart on either side of
Miura Peninsula.
Both air and sea forces were COW
cred in typical battle fashion by the
ready, but silent, guns of an Allied
war fleet anchored in Tokyo Bay
and swarms of planes ranging from
fighters to Super Forts.
In co-ordinated mercy operation
four ships began evacuating the
first of $4,000 prisoners of war in
Japan, including 5000 Americans.
Simultaneously, 134 Super Forts
parachuted 536 tons of supplies to
internment camps that won't be
reached for days, or possibly weeks,
by occupation forces.
Other Forces to Follow.
Tokyos initial occupation by 49,
$50 armed Americans and British
will be followed by major occupation
foTces-the 9th and 9th Armies,
which helped Gen. Macarthur full
fill his pledge to return to Manila.
Steel-helmeted Maj Gen. Joseph
M. Swing led his 11th Division para
troopers from Okinawa to Atsugi.
He was the first to touch Japan as
5he greatest mass air transport of
the Pacific got under way.
An unending stream of C-54
transports, each carrying 40-man
oads, landed on the 5,60O-foot run
way at three minute intervals with
clocklike regularity, disgorging
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