Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly Manila's unkempt streets swarmed with men, women & children, shouting "Veektory!" and "Mabuhay!" -the Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless...
They have no feeling yet that the war is lost. But they sense uneasily that Pearl Harbor was a mistake. For that they blame the Germans, whom they have come to hate. A popular Tokyo joke tells how a Jap slapped a Bulgarian military attache. When he was informed that his victim was an "honorably ally," the Jap apologized: "So sorry, I thought he was a German." But this feeling against Germans is part of a greater hostility toward all whites. (There are still a few thousand white neutrals in Japan...
...Coconuts emptied of milk and filled with explosive, which the Japs sowed along the route of their retreat in Burma. At first overlooked by detector squads, the coconuts blew the legs off infantrymen, the wheels off vehicles. Allied troops captured a Jap ammunition dump stored with thousands of them...
...campaign across New Guinea, the dashing leapfrog drive along the 1,500-mile north coast. Still fresh in the memory of his soldiers was the landing in force on Leyte, the swift lancing drive to Mindoro and Marinduque, the dazzling, varied attack that had baffled and finally paralyzed the Jap on Luzon...
...beachhead on Lingayen Gulf, the way lay straight down the central valley to Manila, and there was no doubt that MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, intended to go there just as fast as they could drive. But there were other things to consider. The Jap must not be allowed to slip onto Bataan. And he must not be allowed to prolong his hold on Manila...