US- ADMIRAL’S DEATH
MAN WHO LED TASK FORCE TO TOKIO Reci 7,50 p.m. Washington, Sept. 6 Vice-Admiral McCain, aged 61, commander of Task Force 38, which entered Tokio Bay at the head of the Allied Armada, died of a heart attack at his home at Coronado, California. Vice-Admiral McCain, after his return to Pearl Harbour from the surrender ceremony aboard the battleship Missouri, told the Press: “The Japanese war lords are not half licked yet and will take a lot more killing in the future. I do not like the look in their eyes.
When asked why. Vice-Admiral McC»pn barked: “Listen, baby, they were just measuring us—just as you measure a man when you are going to hit him the next minute. They do not know they are licked yet; they do not know we are better men than they.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 213, 8 September 1945, Page 5
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