From the June 22, 2015, Yahoo! News/ARP by Alastair Hummer.
Yoshiko Shimabukure still has nightmares of watching friends and Japanese soldiers die as they hid in caves to escape the American shelling. She was one of 222 female students mobilized as a battlefield nursing unit for the Imperial Army in March 1945.
They had only basic training putting on bandages, but the Japanese soldiers they tended "has legs ripped off, their intestines were falling out, faces missing." She was just 17 at the time.
many of her friends died when they were ordered by Japanese soldiers to leave the caves under fire. Others jumped off the cliffs as Americans approached. Others blew themselves up with grenades.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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