Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
...lines of men & women filed into the city with baskets and bamboo cylinders of rice, found ready sales. But food was short. Even the people who had escaped the starvation of Jap prison camps were undernourished, struggling for a subsistence level of living. Only the Army's Philippines Civil Affairs Unit (nicknamed Pee-Cow) kept the city alive-it served hundreds of thousands of meals, set up water points to slake Manila's thirst...
...Navy pointed out last week, Iwo had been an inevitable point of invasion-regardless of cost. From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S. B-29s based in the Marianas; from the same fields U.S. long-range fighters will be able to give the Superforts escort to Tokyo. Perhaps even more important, an Iwo base will let low-level photo-reconnaissance planes do a thorough job on Japan's coast. (Highflying B-29s could not make satisfactory photo-maps because of persistent cloud cover...
...typical Jap blockhouse below Suribachi was more cunningly contrived than anything on Tarawa. Its outer walls were of reinforced concrete, 40 inches thick. The vent did not open toward the sea, but slantwise toward the upper beaches: the 120-mm. gun inside could fire on the beaches and some of our ships, but could not be hit except from a particular angle. There was no sign that it had been touched by anything but a flamethrower. Beside it lay the bodies of eight marines-the apparent cost of taking what was only one of several hundreds similar positions, nearly...
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the rush...