Word: formosae
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Navy Liberators from the MacArthur command ranged as far as Formosa, seek ing out forces which the Japs might be moving south for defense of Luzon...
China-based B295 did their best job of precision bombing on an aircraft factory at Okayama, Formosa. Lanky, blond Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Twentieth Air Force Chief of Staff, judged this job better than any he had seen in Europe: 35 or 36 buildings that comprised this factory "just aren't there any more...
...Soong was born the year (1894) of the Sino-Japanese war in which Japan took the Liu Chiu Islands and Formosa from China. His father, of Hainanese trader stock, was Charlie Jones Soong, who as a boy (9) came to the U.S., be came a Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong...
...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
...flag of its conqueror. Before the conquering Japs came in 1895, Formosa flew the triangular Imperial flag of China's Ching Dynasty - a blue dragon on a yellow background...