Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of age . . . blind in one eye, weigh 124 pounds, as compared with my normal 160, and I know what it is like to be under Jap bombings, strafings and groundfire...
...Japanese heartland, Premier Kuniaki Koiso and his cronies (see FOREIGN NEWS) gibbered of invasion. Actually, Allied forces now have no base large enough, or close enough to Japan, to launch amphibious operations against the main islands. But they are moving ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed, this was clearly a preliminary to the invasion of Okinawa itself-the seizure of a base which would really imperil Japan...
...Japan's home waters Nimitz sent his mighty Fifth Fleet, under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. The carriers cruised (by Jap admission) within 60 miles of Shikoku. Still the enemy fleet skulked in its bases...
...Iglehart, longtime (35 years) Methodist missionary to Japan, now Professor of Missions at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In a frank article written for the current issue of the Duke Divinity School Bulletin, Dr. Iglehart looked through a thick layer of gloom at the chances for reviving Jap missions after...
...Rosenthal's was the second) and the bad luck of Marine Photographer Louis R. Lowery. On D-plus-four, Sergeant Lowery, the only photographer present, scrambled to the top of 546-ft. Suribachi, took 56 pictures of marines raising a 3-ft. American flag under heavy fire. A Jap grenade landed at Lowery's feet; he ducked, tumbled 50 feet down the side of the volcano, wrenched his side, smashed his camera. For all his pains, his shot of Iwo's first flag raising was far from dramatic. A few hours later, when firing was less severe...