Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a Jap midget submarine fired two torpedoes at the ship, and was rammed by a U.S. destroyer, MacArthur watched with emotionless interest. His calm under air attack, first noted in Manila and Corregidor, was again displayed...
With no obstacles except the terrain (part sandy, part marshy), Krueger's men quickly pushed inland, consolidated their separate beachheads, put Lingayen airfield into service, and started south on good highways toward Manila. For days, the Japs faded away ahead of them. On the western flank, the Agno River was early crossed. In the center, where the river's great bend made a logical position for a determined Japanese stand, it was crossed again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been...
...west, in Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
...rafts constantly, yet three men who had no raft, and were kept afloat only by life jackets, never saw a shark. These three, from the Spence, found themselves drifting separately and tied themselves together around a life ring. All had suffered strange hallucinations: the sight of land, a Jap girl bringing water, rescue by a Russian submarine, relieving the gun watch...
...felt better. A month ago, with beaten Chinese armies everywhere in retreat, the atmosphere had been black with gloom. Now the Americans were back on Luzon. In three months' time, predicted the Army newspaper, Sao Tang Pao, U.S. armies would storm China's coasts looking for the Jap. But no U.S. source backed up this optimistic prediction...