Word: formosae
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...Flag for Formosa...
...when the Island of Formosa falls, the flag of what nation will fly over...
...summer long the Japanese naval high command, reshuffled after the smashing defeat in the First Battle of the Philippine Sea, had planned for the next inevitable meeting with the U.S. Fleet. The blow must be struck when the U.S. amphibious forces entered the last island defense line, Japan-Ryukyus-Formosa-Philip-pines. So for the three top-ranking taisho* there was not a wide choice of time. But the taisho could still pick the specific moment: it would be in the first confused days of the beachhead. They devised an ingenious Japanese plan, last week snapped it into execution, after...
That night and the next day Halsey and Mitscher stayed at it. More air groups hammered at the Pescadores on the China side of Formosa. The next day, and the next, the Third Fleet was still fighting off bombers, still raining explosives on Formosa's fat targets...
...week's end, in a skillfully integrated attack, the largest force of B-29 Superfortresses yet sent on an attack (well over 100) swept out from their bases around Chengtu in western China. They followed two flights of navy planes over Formosa's greatest arsenal at Okayama. Two days later, they returned to strike again. In all, only two B-29s were lost...