Word: formosae
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...Haas maintained Japan will not need to worry any longer about raw materials or about fuel oil and gasoline. "It is highly probable," he said, "that the accumulated reserves stored up in Japan and Formosa will last her until she can get the full benefit from her conquered territories. It means that we must defeat Japan, within the year. Or at least, we must so cripple her lines of supply that she will not be able to benefit from the sources of supply, she now has acquired...
...Japanese had a top-flight commander, bulky, 54-year-old General Masaharu Homma, who for 15 months had been training troops in Formosa for this job. He had an estimated 200,000 troops to work with. He did the obvious thing. At many points along the coast he put down landing parties to work their way across the coastal flats into the hills behind the U.S. main line of resistance. But the Jap also swarmed along the cliffs on MacArthur's left flank, with bombs and shells and rifle fire forced the U.S.-Philippine defenders to give ground...
...bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls and their bouquets, paid tribute to Pilot Iinuma for being "thoroughly fit physically for a job of this kind...
When grasping Japan seized China's island of Formosa (the Beautiful) in 1895 and renamed it Taiwan (Terraced Bay), the Chinese accepted their loss with Oriental calm. In the years that followed they watched their neighbor struggle with Formosan problems of malaria, head-hunting savages, typhoons and earthquakes...
That job done, U.S. armed forces might raid Formosa, clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...