Word: hokkaido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
Somehow, after an indeterminate confinement, perhaps at forced labor to repair some of the damage they had wrought, these millions who had swarmed out like locusts must be shipped home-and somehow squeezed into teeming Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Not one of the countries which they had plagued would keep them a day longer than necessary...
...limited to seven liters a month. For the first part of the month a family can cook. After the 20th of the month people try to eat with friends, buy black-market coal or eat uncooked food. Since 1942, the Government has been trying to lift the Hokkaido coal production through "voluntary" recruiting of white-collar workers. Many clerks have been forced to work as miners...
Even the provocation of the bold, unprecedented strikes by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
...next morning, three battleships, still newer and still bigger than the Indianas, appeared in the more dangerous waters off Muroran, at the mouth of Hokkaido's Volcano Bay. They were the Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, and they took the Nihon Steel Works and the Wanishi Iron Works as their target, while screening craft darted closer inshore to shoot at smaller bull's-eyes...