[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 187 (Wednesday, December 7, 2011)] [House] [Pages H8252-H8258] HONORING NAVAJO CODE TALKERS The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Reed). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 5, 2011, the gentleman…

n T he last months of the war ushered in a period of rapid change in the organization of military forces on the Ryukyu Islands. The Joint Chiefs originally assigned both operational control and military government responsibility for the is…

American fo rces in the Ryukyus settled into the garrison phase of operations in September 1945. By then most enemy holdouts had been captured, and the wholesale movement of citizens necessitated by the command's base development plan had …

Preface This book describes the experiences of American civil affairs officers on Okinawa during the years 1945- 1950. It follows these often idealistic men as they planned, trained for, and executed their important and unusual military go…