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iH NORTHWEST HERALD, Section B Wednesday, August 28,1965 Nation Surrender er) was in the first. They were C- 54s. We were prepared to do one of three things -- land, jump, or turn back to Okinawa.... "I'm glad things turned out as they did. The Japanese did every­ thing they said they would. They cooperated in every way." "We set up our headquarters in an old airplane hangar," says Wil­ liams. "The Japanese general came out to surrender. You know, Gener­ al Swing took lys saber. "Swing looked at the Japanese officers with their swords and said; 'What the hell are they doing with those swords?' He was told they were not really weapons, but signs of authority, and Swing said, 'Well, I'm the authority now. Tell them to take them off.' "The Japanese didn't want to do it, but you didn't say no to Joe Swing. He had a terrible temper." Simultaneously with the L-day landings at Atsugi, The 4th U.S. Marine Regiment conducted sea­ borne landings at Yokosuka, the big Japanese naval base 10 miles south of Yokohama situated on the west­ ern side of Tokyo Bay. To reach Yokosuka, the Marines had to sail through the Uraga Strait, dominated by a point of land jutting out from the eastern shore called Futtsu Saki, where the Japanese had emplaced large-caliber coastal artillery. The first Marines ashore were from the 2nd Battalion, which land­ ed at Futtsu Saki, spiked the guns, and re-embarked to join the 1st and 3rd battalions on the eastern shore at Yokosuka. E. Frank Carney Jr. of San Fran­ cisco, then a 24-year-old major, re­ members the beach at Fattsu Saki: "It was just about dawn.... As we hit the beach the sun was just com­ ing up and it was beautiful. It was just like their flag (the rising sun). There were spikes of red going up into the sky. "There was a news correspondent (Howard Handlemen of Internation­ al News Service) next to me as we ran onto the beach and began set­ ting up a perimeter. He asked me lor a comment and I said, 'Well, so Into the rising sun.' I was quoted everywhere after that." James M. Sherwood of Schenecta­ dy, N.Y., then a 23-year-old second lieutenant, also remembers Futtsu Saki: "There were fears of ambush and booby traps, mines and that sort of thing. Our attitude was to expect anything.... We were very pleasant­ ly surprised. "Futtsu Saki was a sandy beach. It was a beautiful garden spot, beautifully landscapped. We were amazed to observe the entire (Japa­ nese) garrison was drawn up behind the beach waiting at attention." The only problem, says Sherwood, was the 120mm guns themselves. "We took a bunch of Navy gun­ ners' mates with acetylene torches and thermite grenades," he recalls. "The torches had no effect. The only way we could decommission them was with thermite grenades." Ernest Hoberecht, 67, a Watonga, Okla., businessman, was a United Press war correspondent who made the L-day landing with the Marines at Yokosuka. "I don't recall any apprehensive feeling at all," says Hoberecht. "We had told the Japanese to take the propellers off all their airplanes and .Continued from Page 10B by our surveillance we had seen that they had done that. "Actually, I don't think any of us were particularly nervous except when we saw all those caves around there that they had dug in the hill­ sides. We were damned relieved we weren't storming that place as had been the plan (before the atomic bombs were dropped) because they would have sat up there in those caves and all along that beach, all the way down to Kamakura, they would have blown the dickens out of us." "The Japanese people, well, they were just scared to death," Hober­ echt said, noting that they had been told again and again that the Ameri­ cans were barbarians who would rape their women and murder their children. "They had been propaganzided so much. They were hungry. We had practically starved that island to death. They had eaten all their dogs, cats and probably rats, too, and they were in bad shape." The L-day landings, including MacArthur's 2 p.m. arrival at At­ sugi, were merely the initial disem­ barkations of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops who were to occupy Japan for seven years. Eight on the heels of the 11th Airborne and the 4th Marines came the 1st Cavalry Division, which landed at Yokohama, some units of which arrived while the surrender ceremony was in progress aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2. By then, dread of Japanese treachery was dwindling. "We were just relieved, most of all," says Don Walton of San Anto­ nio, then a captain and commander of the division's reconnaissance troop. "We listened to the surrender ceremonies on the radio while we were landing at Yokohama. Michas "Mike" Ohnstead of North Branch, Minn., was a 19-year- old clerk-typist with a T-5 rating when he landed with the 1st Cavalry and was almost immediately as­ signed to temporary with the Atom­ ic Bomb Commission at Hiroshima. "I guess the thing that impressed me most was the complete reversal of what we had expected. For exam­ ple, we had two Japanese cooks and I think both of them had been infan­ trymen who had participated in bat­ tles. I remember how simple it would have been for them to poison our food." On Sept. 8, the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, George Custer's old c o m - mand, headed the victory column that officially occupied Tokyo. 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