Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap ships would not come out and fight, they must be hunted down in their yards. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's birdmen found good hunting at Kure and Kobe on the Inland Sea. In one day they damaged one or two battleships; two or three larger carriers, two medium carriers and two escort carriers; two cruisers and a dozen smaller craft. Six small freighters were definitely sunk...
...enemy refused to fight back with his surface ships, he was as eager as ever with his planes. Reinforcements staged from northern fields lashed again & again at Mitscher's carriers and their screen. One U.S. ship was seriously damaged. In two flays, over land and sea, 281 Jap planes were shot out of the air, 275 were destroyed on the ground and 175 more were crippled...
Spruance and Mitscher turned south to hammer the central Ryukyus. Main target was Okinawa, 60 miles long and up to 16 miles wide. The weather was bad, but Navy airmen hunted through the overcast for Jap airfields, arsenals and shipping...
Dictator Franco, hastening to change the painful subject, tried to make common cause with the U.S. and Britain (whom he once called "victim to [their] own errors"). Over a Vatican report that Jap troops in Manila had butchered 172 Spanish men, women & children, the controlled Madrid press waxed hotly indignant. An official communiqué protested the "systematic, premeditated murders." An official demand for satisfaction was dispatched to Tokyo...
...Mobilization of a National Volunteer Army - the Jap version of the Nazi Volkssturm - to include all save "the aged, the sick, the very young and pregnant women...