Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur, the great soldier, had returned. The first major capital of the Jap-conquered Pacific had been retaken; a prime symbol of Japanese dominance had fallen. Wrote President Roosevelt to Philippine President Sergio Osmena: "Our hearts have quickened...
...Jap guards at their camp had pulled out three weeks ago. Major Takasaki, the commandant, had silkily explained that they were leaving, "due to certain inconveniences." He had ordered: "Remain within the stockade for your own protection. We shall leave food for 30 days." The prisoners had raided the Jap stores, greedily drunk up some 500 cases of milk...
Behind the Stockade. They butchered Brahma steers, began to recover some of the strength drained out of them by almost three years of the horror which began at Bataan. But they were still sick, emaciated, unarmed-still prisoners deep within the Jap lines. Jap combat troops, moving northeast along the highway which ran past the camp, used the prison's garrison barracks for temporary quarters. Japs in force were only a mile to the south...
...soldiers were laughing, chattering and shouting "Ting hao!" ("Good!") to everyone. The blockade had been broken; they had done it. Some of them were sitting happily on the last Jap machine-gun emplacements directly in the fork of the road, where the dirt track of the Shweli Valley spilled on the black asphalt surface of the main Burma highway itself. A little distance off, Chinese soldiers stood gaping with peasant eyes at the monstrous steel hides of the American tanks...
...seven-mile hike to O'Donnell prison was ahead of us. . . . My first good look at O'Donnell prison was from atop a rise about a mile off. I saw a forbidding maze of tumbledown buildings, barbed wire entanglements, and high guard towers, from which flew the Jap flag. I had flown over this dismal spot several times, but never had given it more than passing appraisal. I wondered as I looked at it now how long I would be there; how long I could last. As we stood, staring dazedly, there came to me a premonition that...