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broadcast announcing the Japanese capitulation. They killed the commanding
general of the Imperial Guard Division and fired on the house of Prime
Minister Kantaro Suzuki before being subdued. The Japanese delegation were
fearful of my landing in such an atmosphere of violence.
My staff was unutterably opposed to my projected landing. They called it
a gamble. They argued that on the Kanto plain of Tokyo alone twenty-two
Japanese Divisions, 300,000 well-trained fighting soldiers, remained, while
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For the supreme commander, a handful of his staff, and a small advance
party to land unarmed and unescorted where they would be outnumbered by
thousands to one was foolhardy. But years of overseas duty had schooled
me well in the lessons of the Orient and, what was probably more important,
had taught the Far East that I was its friend.
Small advance parties were flown in to Atsugi, and on the morning of August
30th, General Eichelberger arrived to direct the landing operations.
At two o$B!G(Bclock in the afternoon my C-54, Bataan emblazoned on its nose,
soared above Kamakura$B!G(Bs giant bronze Buddha, past beautiful Mt. Fuji,
and swung down toward Atsugi. General Whitney, who was acting as my military
secretary, recorded his feelings of the moment:
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out at the field and the flat stretches of Kanto Plain, I could see numerous
anti-aircraft emplacements. It was difficult not to let my mind dwell on
Japan$B!G(Bs recent performances. The war had been started without a formal
declaration; nearly everywhere Japanese soldiers had refused to give up
until killed; the usual laws of war had not been complied with; deadly
traps had frequently been set. Here was the greatest opportunity for a
final and climatic act. The anti-aircraft guns could not possibly miss
at this range. Had death, the insatiable monster of the battle, passed
MacArtur by on a thousand fields only to murder him at the end? I held
my breath. I think the whole world was holding its breath. But as usual,
he had been right. He knew the Orient. He knew the basic Japanese character
too well to have thus gambled blindly with death. He knew and trusted that
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down on the airfield made the concrete runways and apron shimmer with the
heat. There were several other United States planes on the field, and the
few armed Allied troops in the area seemed a frighteningly small force.
A handful of officers waited to greet him. The senior was General Eichelberger
who strode forward to meet MacArthur. They shook hands and MacArtur said
in a quiet voice: $B!H(BBob, from Melbourne to Tokyo is a long way, but this
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