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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
How the first Allied aircraft landed in Japan to start the occupation process
- Lt Col Tench
. “[ Tench Report]” — August, 1945 - “[Letter to family ]” — == The End of WWII ==
From the beginning of the letter.
With the Japanese peace offer on 10 August, the market for tactical plans took a very sharp break. Accordingly, I was spending a quiet Sunday afternoon on 19 August with my feet on the desk engage in the normal Planning pastime of reading magazines, when I was placed on call for a quick trip to Japan!
Col C. T. Tench as in charge of organizing the advance party to Atsugi Airdrome, 20 miles west of Tokyo. He himself was part of the party.
Key Characters
General Chamberlin
General Whitehead
General MacArthur
Colonel Lackey
Lt General Arisuye
Commander Anatoliy Rodionov (Naval Attache, Soviet Union)
Commander Stassen
Historical Relevance
I simply do not want this simple family heirloom, get lost in history.
Col Tench was a family friend of my Grandfather Hal Stryker. Hal was employee by Standard Oil in China, and based in Shanghai, worked up and down East Asia selling products.
Later he meet my Grandmother Alice, who “was visiting” China. My Uncle was born in Singapore, and my father Muchsin (Muckdin in his era) Manchuria.
He so enjoyed crossing international borders with that answer of where he was born.
