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Show CRITICS AT HOME REBUKED BY NAVY OFFICIALS High-ranking officials of the Navy, taking cognizance of some home-front criticism of the Army's Ar-my's role on Okinawa, are emphatic em-phatic in denying that the Army bungled the ground campaign and Vice-Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, Tur-ner, who was the commander of our amphibious forces at Okinawa says that so far as he is concerned there was no difference between Army, Navy and Marines out where the fighting took place. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal challenged the critics who attempted attemp-ted to blame the Army command, saying that it is "easy to make after-the-fact conclusions" butt he fact remains that we are winning on Okinawa and that more than 61,000 Japs have been killed on the island. |