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THBWWII Naval Dispatches on Various Operations, Including Mainland Japan
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LiveJun 22, 2018
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Lot of 4 dispatches from the US Naval Communication Service, Amphibious Forces, Pacific.
6 April 1945: "LST's on Purple 2 are shooting down friendly planes suggest you warn planes to stay away from that beach."
12 May 1945 (Secret): "Further Report on rescue by Dumbo [air-sea rescue 'flying boats'] this morning. Rodeo 5 landed at 0845 at 30-40N 128-50E in rough sea with 12 foot swells. He rescued the entire crew of 60V465, search PBM, which made a dead stick landing at 1410 yesterday after a running battle with 5 Tojo which lasted 1 and 1/2 hours. 1 Tojo was splashed. The plane was landed with both engines out and remained afloat for 1 hour. The survivors were in 3 liferafts, lashed together. Search planes observed the survivors until midnight. This morning Rodeo 5, assisted by 4 fighters from Kadena made a square search from the reported position and located the survivors 22 miles from that position. 13 survivors picked up, 3 of whom had minor wounds. Dumbo was airborne again 25 minutes after landing."
11 July 1945: "SECNAV has sent following message to commander third fleet quote My congratulations to the third fleet pilots and its crews for strike on Japan. James Forrestal unquote CINCPAC passes this message his gratification and extends his congratulations."
2 Aug 1945 (Top Secret): "This dispatch is personal from Turner to Nimitz and Spruance. The photographic coverage we have received thus far for OLYPIC is totally inadequate and I request that something beyond my authority be done about it. We have only received 1:10,000 vertical coverage of about half the area; no 1:5,000 vertical and no large scale low or high angle obliques. Unless larger scale and more complete coverage is received very soon we cannot make adequate preparations to issue our intelligence maps for OLYMPIC. The following minimum coverage is needed at the earliest possible date: ...." He goes on to extensive listing of all the views and scales that are needed. These are locations along the Japanese coast and slightly inland (ex: "5 miles inland from Hashima Sake to Yoshitoshi"), clearly preparations for stepped up bombing and possible invasion.
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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.
Very good with just a few areas of toning. One with wrinkling from humidity.Condition
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