World Battlefronts, THE WAR: More Power to Them

Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win it and get home sooner.

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SUSIE SHEPHERD, principal at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro, N.C., on why the school's annual fundraiser sold good grades for money
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SUSIE SHEPHERD, principal at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro, N.C., on why the school's annual fundraiser sold good grades for money

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