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Word: hatsuzakura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Contact was made between the 2,100-ton destroyer Nicholas, with a magnificent two-and-a-half-year combat record, and a frowzy little Japanese can bearing envoys and harbor pilots. Beside the Nicholas, the Hatsuzakura was pathetic; amid the power of the Third Fleet, she was ridiculous. Her three 5-inch guns were depressed toward her deck, as though humbly bowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Onto the Sacred Soil | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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