Word: honshu
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Even at sea, there was no active front: Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, with its British task force attached, had just finished a two-day pounding of northern Honshu with rockets, bombs and shells, and had withdrawn to the east, presumably to refuel...
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...
foot soldier ever touched a beach on Honshu. To command this force, "Tooey" Spaatz, director of the strategic campaign against Germany, was an obvious choice, both by seniority and accomplishment...
...made aggressive sweeps toward our aircraft. In the time we have been near the target we have seen only a few phosphorus shells from land-based flak batteries and a few tracers from small warships in the harbor but none came close. . . . They could not save this northern Honshu shipping center [Aomorí] even though they knew 24 hours in advance [see above] that we were going to burn it to the ground...
...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...