Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 41
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41on the target information center, General MacArthur
and General Eichelberger and General McGinley assigned,
oh, many, many . . . several photo interpretation units
so that the planes would fly over the Kanto Plain
and would bring these pictures that they took back
to these units that were under our target information
center now. It was our job to pick all of the tactical
targets for the Air Corps and for the Navy and for the
artillery for the invasion of the Kanto Plain when
we went into Tokyo. We were limited to artillery
intelligence and not to infantry intelligence.
Now when did you really get into the intelligence work
intensively? Would this be after the Zamboanga campaign?
No, no, no, no. I originally got into it at . . . I
was assigned when the 8th Army was put together at
Hollandia. See, we were at Hollandia only for a very
short time, an organizational time, getting ready to
go to Leyte. My job there was really more than
intelligence; my job there was to check the Army . .
all of us, whoever we were, were to go out and check
the combat efficiency of the troops that had been
assigned to us. There'd been so many assigned to us
that everybody had to go out and do it.Marcello:
Green:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/42/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.