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THBNaval Dispatches Quoting Radio Tokyo Commentaries, Possibly Including Hiroshima
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LiveJun 22, 2018
Cowan’s American History: Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, 2018 is comprised of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags, and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Lot of 3 on "US Naval Communication Service, Amphibious Forces, Pacific" forms. All addressed to "All Hands!"
7 August 1945: "The truth about Potsdam -- The communique of this conference reminds us to a Japanese fairy tale about a treasure box. The Big 3 had their heads together for a half a month to produce nothing, claimed no secret treaties were reached. Looks from here as if the technical advisors or experts could have met and reached much better decisions. Instead of sending the highest officials of the American and British governments. There has not been any of the largest issues of importance settled. There are too difference of opinions. The Soviet Union definitely came out the better at this meeting. The American President and British Prime Minister only came to Potsdam to except the Soviet Unions demands. This communique did not state any word had been reached as to whether the Soviet Union would definitely come into the Pacific war against Japan. From all indications, there is a two power going on in the Pacific. There is so much confusion we can not tell whether these are American Chungking, or American and British. This is our opinion of the Potsdam Conference."
8 August 1945: "General gripe by commentor [sic] for American discriminate [sic - indiscriminate?] bombing of cities killing women and children in these bombings 25% of casualties have been children while 50 to 60% women. these bombing are doing some damage but are only destroying buildings of culture along with our women and children. The American people at home must be told of these atrocities commited [sic] by their war leaders...
Note: An American commentator said on another frequency that results of yesterdays bomb rpt one bomb was 4-1/2 square miles destroyed." (Possibly first report of Hiroshima?)
10 August 1945, aired 9 August: "The manufacture of high octane airplane gasoline from resin pine-trees has been launched throughout nation in preparation for show down battle Japanese mainland stop processing this airplane fuel perfected by Army technical Major Toyama and Army technical Major Masamitsu Yoshimura of Army fuel headquarters. Pinetrees are plentiful in Japan and teh processing of the gasoline is simple. It is quite suitable for aircraft. It surpasses in quality all other fuels made from roots and herbs that Japan has perfected thus far."
World War II Dispatch Collection
Lots 222-228
J. John Fox (1905-1999) was born in Paterson, NJ, but grew up in and worked most of his adult life in Boston, MA. He attended Boston University, then enrolled in Boston University Law School. It was there he acquired the nickname “Just John” Fox, his reply to a professor’s question about his name.
When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Fox enlisted in the Navy, despite being around 36 years old. Initially he served in the North Atlantic before being assigned to the amphibious forces in the Pacific Theater under Admiral Richmond “Kelly” Turner. Fox became an intelligence officer and was involved in the planning of the assaults on Kwajelein, the Marianas, Palau, Leyte, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In late 1945 he was also deeply involved in planning the invasion of Japan itself. Had the invasion occurred, he was to have been in charge of prisoner interrogation and captured documents. He was awarded the bronze star for his service in the Pacific Theater. Before being discharged in 1946, he helped in preparation of amphibious operations training materials at the Naval War College in Newport, RI.
After his discharge, he returned to his legal practice in Boston. Governor Dever appointed him as an associate judge in 1952. He then became a probate judge in Norfolk Probate Court in 1960. He retired from the bench in 1973.
In the 1960s Fox helped establish a public medical school in Massachusetts, a school that became the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 1974, he co-sponsored, with David Bartley, the Bartley-Fox Law, the first of its kind, in Massachusetts. Bartley-Fox established stiff penalties for illegal possession of a firearm and committing a crime with an unlicensed firearm. Although the law generated controversy, as does all firearms-related legislation, this one did not restrict ownership of firearms, it only required them to be registered.
Judge Fox lived for another quarter century after retirement, passing away on October 4, 1999 at the age of 96.
Lots 222-228 were brought back from the Pacific by Fox following World War II, and descended in his family.
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