Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap submarine's radio report of sinking "something" along the cruiser's route was intercepted, partly decoded-but not taken seriously...
Died. Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, 50, peacetime British aviatrix, wartime Girl Friday (through Jap captivity in Manila) to Hearst's aged (72), No. 1 Foreign Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand; of coronary thrombosis ; in Manhattan...
...hurried departure in 1941 was caused by the Chinese Government's fear that its paleontological treasure would end up in Japan. Sure enough, the Japanese general in charge of Peking, nudged by Jap scientists, conducted a thoroughgoing search for Peking Man. If the Japs ever found him, they never...
...estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held Bougainville...
...been thoroughly bombed, shot at, and finally driven to live like animals in caves. Some of the maimed had raw wounds alive with maggots. All suffered from malnutrition, skin diseases, lice. Yet of the 500 who had been through a nerve-shattering ordeal that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three, his mother 1) breast feeds him; 2) postpones...