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Show Humous Then wui Mow r , v ;- . j i -r A. More than a year has passed j , , (-. v since the armed might of the - . - , I " - United States shattered for- . .. - - i v, . .' ever the delusions of grandeur f ; ; - i of Dai Nippon, blasting the I ' ; - - , ; - - ; i dream of Japanese icar lords I , - , j !' :.. that the Pacific one day would ,; . : " V ; .. s i.. : , ( i be a Japanese lake. In the .j .. ,i ', i : ..., ..-..- t k , '. ',, ! grand finale that ended V-J . $ i N -- i ,'. . . 1 Day iiere were many heroes. L" , -rJ i' Tieir nafjips flashed comet- " lv-" ""' j r ! lV. i . ; - ' s Zi&e across the pages of the ."- :s f V . I I nations press for a day or , I , " - - I " ' . 4 s !, ! two and then were lost. I t ' I V v 1 f" r, . ; ' . t . ' ' I x wJS3 t. 5 " 'i v , . i - ! p I V f ' x I ' ' ' V! ,v- - 1 VICTORY SPEARHEAD . . . The RECONVERSION . . . And this is Mc- name of Capt. Donald McMillan of Millan today, one year after his his- New York City was headlined when he toric flight to Tokyo. He is shown in piloted the first plane load of Ameri- his working clothes as a geologist at can personnel to Japan's Atsuki aero- Anaconda Copper company, Butte, drome. Mont. , i , - . ' - , s - , j . i f s "V s ! - , 1 " 1 f - N What has become of the men Vi H i. ' s s ,1 ; whose names were on every L - i I " ' tongue a year ago? Some are - x ifiZZ ira tie services, hut the , i; ; , , - . great majority have returned ! f , , f 5 s !V ' to tne lives tnat were inter- 4 . f " x ' , , rupted by Pearl Harbor. They h ) ' I - ' ' , "if ij i have gone back to pick up the . J ' ' ' ,t threads of hfe. . , v ' CONNECTICUT YANKEE .... A ALAS, POOR YORICK! . . . Reminis-Yankee Reminis-Yankee who speaks Japanese fluently cent of the graveyard scene in 'Ham-is 'Ham-is a rare bird indeed. Such a one was let is this one showing Smith back at Lt. A. H. Smith of West Haven, Conn., his job as assistant professor of an-mariiie an-mariiie corps interpreter during vie- ' thropology at University of Texas at tory operations. Austin. 'v n ., ry i i L 'f fV0ft , V 4vJ Wl, l l The few modest heroes pre- fJ f ) K"' ' " 4 n - i 1 1 sented here are tviical of the t $ I y s , ' 1 i ' s men uho finished the job in i ,f V"1," f ', t- I Japan. A year ago they made '', ' I J I V'i! A headlines. Today they are I v "f I i working quietly in peaceful r V , J f , pursuits, proud of what they , V, t fJ ? 1 f accomplished but not expect- : TV," j : : " i f , ing to be hailed as world sav- ( J 1 I ' I 4 lours. There u as a job to do - A " ' - I f J , , that neressiteted a detour from n ' f f '. i , t,lp lle th?y had planned. ( , - f f - ' t ' - - , , r ) . 'yU-, lii ,i -sr-H' -i!iMMs.,smk. ... , ..... . IN FIRST FIFTY . . . Among the first 50 men of the U. S. occupation forces to land on Japanese soil was Sgt. Joseph Jo-seph Archosky, radio operator of the 68tb army group, army airways communications com-munications system. STILL TEAMWORK . . . Archosky is a firm believer in teamwork. He saw what it did to Japan. So he still practices prac-tices it. He and his bride team up here to unravel a college homework problem. |