Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet were on the rampage again. Presumably still operating as Task Force 58, under Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, they appeared defiantly this week southeast of Kyushu Island, where they were ringed about by enemy bases in the Izu Islands, in Japan proper and in the Ryukyus. If the Jap Navy-or that part of it has been repaired-wanted a fight, it could have...
...despite claims of damage inflicted on U.S. carriers by Jap aircraft, the task force remained in the area, and a repeat performance was given the following day, with the emphasis on the seaport of Kobe and the naval base of Kure...
...Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
...command of Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, smashed a Japanese attempt to bring troops in from one of the other islands. But in northern Luzon the 33rd Division, after taking a month to gain 13 miles through difficult mountain terrain, was still seven miles from Baguio. And in Mindanao, Jap artillery and electrically-controlled land mines slowed the advance beyond Zamboanga. The road ahead was steep...
...cost of conquering Iwo Jima, (see U.S. AT WAR) wondered last week if there might not have been a way to avoid it. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who has seen many a U.S. fighting man fall on Pacific isles, radioed: "We had to have this island, regardless of casualties. Jap strategy all along has been to send U.S. casualties soaring until the Americans sicken of the war and call it off. I do not believe any method of any man could have lessened the cost. I once wrote that there would be many more Tarawas before this bloody Pacific...