Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours the sound truck howled Japanese into the silent bamboo and sword grass of southern Guam's jungle. Suddenly from the green wall emerged a chubby, medium-sized young man, blinking in the sun. While U.S. officers watched, the Jap trudged up the hill and saluted. Ten months after the U.S. recapture of Guam, the last Japanese officer was willing to talk surrender...
...Guns & Grass. Was this an irrevocable decision or tactical bluster? Apparently the reported unofficial Japanese drive for a negotiated peace, launched about two months ago, had stalled against U.S. insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...
Scrubtyphus, about as serious as louse-borne typhus, is spread by small mites, often present in tall grass. It is fought by burning the suspected area, impregnating clothing with insect powder, keeping skin covered. The Army is working on a vaccine...
...missionaries-seven women and four men-had picked the spot to hide in before the Philippines fell. With their fellow refugees, they had lived like natives, eating rice and bananas and sleeping in grass, huts with bamboo floors. Often, when the Japs were rumored to be advancing, they had hurriedly abandoned the little settlement and hid out in native huts or in foxholes until the scare passed. When the Japs finally did come to Hopevale, there was no warning...
...fighting the Japanese in the jungles of New Georgia and New Guinea two years ago. More than 50% of the names and serial numbers are different, because of replacements. But even where the names and serial numbers are the same, the men have changed. Outfits which were green as grass in the Solomons and New Guinea have now been hardened and heartened by victories. They have cohesion, esprit de corps and battlewise leadership...