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i Reg. 49.991 JC^Irimy/Kodak 310 ~L Includes Kodak 3100 disc camera SPRING HILL We didn't know what to expect' U.S. paratroopers recall day when they became first to occupy Japan UPI photo The Japanese had surrendered on Aug. 14, 1945, but the actual peace-signing ceremony would not be held until Sept. 2. An advance party of paratroopers along with some technicians were •ent over to secure Atsugi Airfield. These infantrymen were the first Allied occupation troops to set afoot on a Japanese home Island. This file photo (9/3/45) is of Sgt. Harry Vaughan, a member of the 11th Airborne Division, swapping a cigarette for a genuine Japanese saber with a Japanese soldier. By Robert McNeUl United Press International It was Aug. 28, 1945, L-day minus 2, when about two dozen U.S. para­ troopers, apprehensive at best, scared at worst, took off from Oki­ nawa to become the first Allied troops to occupy Japan. They were the advance party of the llth Airborne Division and their single C-47 troop carrier was head­ ed for Atsugi, a Japanese airbase 20 miles southeast of Tokyo. These paratroopers, along with some technicians from the U.S. 5th Air Force, were to secure the air­ field for the landing of Gen. D o u g l a s MacArthur, the supreme Allied commander, and following units of the llth Division, on Landing-Day, Aug. 30. The Japanese had surrendered on Aug. 14, but the actual peace-sign­ ing ceremony would not be held until Sept. 2 and these airborne in­ fantrymen and artillerymen would be the first Allied occupation troops to set foot on a Japanese home island. This meant confronting people, military and civilian, who only days before had been dedicated to dying for their emperor in a fanatical doomsday defense that Pentagon planners said might cost 1 million Allied casualities, more than had been counted in the entire Pacific campaign. Would these Japanese abide by the emperor's request and lay down their arms? Or would they follow the lead of some Imperial Army hotheads urging rebellion in Tokyo? No one knew. Bernard Bergman of Philadel­ phia, an artilleryman who was aboard the first C-47 that landed that day, remembers: "Frankly, I was scared as hell.... We didn't know what to expect. We had been told that there would be no problem, but iaylng it is one thing and doing it is another." Bergman, a 23-year-old recon­ naissance sergeant, and the others in the advance party were profound­ ly relieved when they realized that the Japanese, docile and polite, were apparently complying with MacArthur's surrender instructions as relayed through Emperor Hirohito. "We just sat there and they were looking and us and we were looking at them, and I guess they were as puzzled as we were," said Bergman. But the combat veterans of the llth Airborne were still apprehen­ sive when the main body began to arrive on L-day. First of all, they did not use twin-engine C-47s, the mainstay of World War II airborne operations. They used four-engine C-54s, which could fly much longer distances. And for good reason. Col. A.N. Williams, who was the llth Division's chief of staff, remembers: "We had to fi^ln something that would take us round trip because we were afraid the Japanese wouldn't let us land. A lot of them had sworn never to give up, to fight like kami­ kaze pilots. A lot of the ground troops said to hell with what the emperor said, that they would never give up. So we didn't know what kind of reception were were going tt get.... ' "We were ready for anythin^ Fully armed, of course -- an scared, too," said Williams, 81, no^ retired at Fort Sam Houston in San\ Antonio. • "If someone had popped a fir£ cracker, God knows what woulf have happened." Paul Brown, a former llth Aiif borne artillery sergeant now living in Canyon Lake, Texas, recalls a very unusual deviation: "We flew in with our 75mm howit­ zers assembled and ready to fire. We had never done that before. They were always disassembled in flight. But when we took off for Atsugi they were ready for action." George Pearson, 82, of Sheridan, Wyo., was a colonel and command­ er of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment, the first unit of the llth to land on L-day. He recalls: "I was in the third plane to land. Gen. Joe Swing (division command- SURRENDER • Page 12B * FAMOUS NAMES • ACCESSORIES • THE JCPENNEY PHOTO CENTER Reg. 239.99. JCPenney Pentax K1000 kit includes Pentax 35mm SLR camera with 50mm f'2.0 lens, JCPenney 135mm f 2.8 telephoto lens, flash, . ̂ gadget bag, more. "ii J&.W NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday, August 28,1985 Nation CPenney 1985 J C Penney Company inc . Brickyard. Ford City. Fox Valley Center Golf Mill Lakehurst. Lincoln Mall. Louis Joliet Mall. 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