Mississippi Battleship Breaks Through Shuri Castle Defense
In May 1945 the USS Mississippi battered Shuri Castle on Okinawa with 14 inch guns to breach the fortress and support ground troops. Captain H J Redfield Jr and Lt Cmdr John O Leary led the bombardment as naval artillery pounded the rock walls to aid the 77th Infantry Division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Greene
UP News
Okinawa
Shuri Castle
Mississippi
U.S
Matthew C. Perry
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
77Th
U.S. Infantry
Naha
Yormabaru
Enor
77Th Division
H. J. Redfield Jr
Ole Miss
Cmdr
Richard E. Bly
Bly
Shuri
John
O’leary
Redfield
University of Virginia
Johnson to Give Phi Beta Kappa Address at Wake Forest
Gerald W. Johnson veteran journalist and author will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address at Wake Forest College on April 10. Twenty five new members will be initiated in ceremonies before the speech, with a 6 30 p.m. banquet in Reynodla Hall and the address at 8 p.m. in the law building courtroom. Johnson, a Wake Forest graduate, has written more than 20 books and edited columns for major papers and the Nation. He has received multiple journalism awards and has ties to Wake Forest through family and past posts.
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Winston-Salem
Gerald W. Johnson
Phi Beta Kappa
Wake Forest College
Honorary Scholastic Society
Johnson
Reynolda Hall
Law Building
Riverton
Sunpapers of
Baltimore
The
New Republic
North Carolinian Heads Atomic Energy Commission
John Stephens Graham of North Carolina serves as Atomic Energy Commissioner. The Winston-Salem lawyer and Democrat travels from a 30 mile bus ride to the Maryland headquarters, studies continuously, and oversees a 2.5 billion dollar annual program with 7,000 personnel. He holds UNC and UVA degrees, was Navy, Treasury, and law firm veteran, and maintains North Carolina ties and family in Washington.
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Margaret Kernodle
Washington
Atomic Energy
John Stephens Graham
North Carolina
AEC
Maryland
Eisenhower
Germantown
Graham
Atomic Power Laboratory
Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Co
District of Columbia
White House
Capitol
Congress
Carl Durham
D-Nc
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Winston-Salem
Georgetown
New Orchard
N. H
Elizabeth Breckinridge
John Graham
Denver
Charles P. Howard
Boston
UNC
The
Tional
Stevenson- Kefauver
University of North Carolina
University of Virginia
Jeanette Nunnery Hamilton
Fayetteville
Lewis Strauss
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
Bureau of Naval Operations
the Treasury
C. Max Gardner
Internal Revenue
Alex Brown and Sons
Baltimore
Craige & Craige
Winston‘Salem
Vaughn
Episcopal Diocese of
Senate
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Waam-Tv
DuPont
Sidney Hillman Foundation
George Foster Peabody
Wake Forst
Thomasville Davidsonian
Lexington Dispatch
Greensboro Daily News
Sun Papers
Lois Johnson
Wake Forest
North Carolinian
N. C
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Reading
Mass
General Electric
Square Auto
Elect
Columbia
Goodyear
Zooprfyear
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