Evening star., 1945-08-30
Occupation
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$500 paratroopers, garbed in battle
green and fully armed.
Gen. Macarthur called the cheers
and music which greeted him "the
sweetest music I ever heard"
The five-star general, wearing his
inevitable dark glasses and smoking
a pipe, was accompanied by his chief
of staff, 1t Gen. Richard K. Suther-
land.
Other ranking officers flying into
Atsugi included 1t. Gen. Robert l..
Eichelberger, whose 9Th Army will
occupy the Tokyo area; Gen. Carl
A. Spaatz, commander of the United
States Army Strategic Air Forces
whose Super Forts helped to defeat
Japan; Gen. George C. Kenney,
commanding the Far East Air
Forces, and 1t. Gen. Ennis C. White
head, commander of the 5th Air
Force.
Long Road, Macarthur Says.
From Melbourne to Tokyo was a
long road" Gen. Macarthur said
before leaving for Yokohama to set
up his headquarters. 1T has been
a long, hard road. But this looks
like the pay-of1.
"The surrender plans are going
splendidly and completely according
to prearrangement.
"The Japs seem to be offering us
complete good faith and there is
every hope for success in the Ca
pitulation and that it will continue
without friction and without un-
necessary bloodshed"
Admiral Nimitz, who watched the
landings in Tokyo Bay from his
flagship South Dakota, also noted
the peaceflllness of the occupation
Il think" he said, 1T was because
of the Emperor"
First sea borne units to land were
men of the I'd Battalion of the 4tt
Regiment of the 9th Marine Division
Spearheading the naval occupation
BY 10,650 men. they hit the beach
at Cape FuttSu, narrow, rocklikt
fortress across narrow strait from
Yokosuka, at 5:58 am. (4:58 pm
Wednesday, Eastern war time.
They quickly made sure that al
of Futtsu's big guns had beer
breeched and offered no hazard tc
Allied warships lying offshore, in.
Guiding Admiral Halsey's flagship
the battleship Missouri, aboarc
which surrender documents will BIZ
| signed Sunday.
British ships sent $50 Marines
and jacktars to accomplish the
same task on two tiny guardian
island.
Move Into Naval Base.
Main tank-equipped Marine
forces quickly moved into the naval
base, led by Marine Brig. Gen. VIII
liam Clements. The American fac
was run up over the base at 6::36
am. (5::36 pm. Wednesday, Eastern
war time).
In a brief 10-minute ceremony
Admiral Carney, Admiral Halsey's
chief OF staff and head of the Sc
Fleets dirty trick department, ;
accepted the surrender of Yokosuka
at HIP am. Q0:12 pm. yesterday
Eastern war time).
At about the same time. the
cruiser San Diego, flagship of Rea,
Admiral Oscar C. Badgers Task
Force 81, docked, the first Amer.
lean warship to do so in Japar
since the war began.
Admiral Badgers force pioneered
the entrance of the American anc
British war fleet into Tokyo Bay
| where interest was divided between
turning Yokosuka into America,
first naval base in Japan and prepa.
rations for Sundays surrender
Admiral Nimitz is scheduled to NOV,
over to the Missouri and run ur
his f1ve-star pennant.
Full details of Japan's occupation
remained to be disclosed by Gen
Macarthur, who brought a variable
set of plans with him ready to meet
any development. There was nc
mention of immediate plans to oc-
cupy Tokyo.
Both Gen. Eichelberger's 9th Army
and 1t. Gen. Walter Krueger's 9Th
Army will move into the beaten is
lands in the next few weeks.