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Article: Return to Japan.(Japan since World War II)(Cover Story)
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- National Review
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- August 28, 1995
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Three weeks after the atomic bombs were dropped, the 11th Airborne `secured'Tokyo for General MacArthur's triumphal entry. Fifty years later,one soldier returned to witness a modern Japan. William Letwin Mr. Letwin is the author of The Origins of Scientific Economics.
DURING June and July, 1945, I was expecting to visit Japan. We -- that is, the 11th Airborne Division, then stationed just south of Manila -- were working out the plans for our allotted part in the invasion of Japan, which was scheduled for the end of that year. We were supposed to drop into landing zones behind the southern coast and hold out there until our seaborne friends arrived to back us up and ...