Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humanitarian Jap...
Captain John P. Cady, U.S.N., had already protested the Jap's admission to the courtroom, protested "calling one of the officers of a defeated enemy who, as a nation, have proved guilty of every despicable treachery ... to testify against one of our commanding officers. . . ." Cady had fought against "any such grotesque [and unprecedented] proceedings." The court had overruled him. Now Cady rose again, demanding: "Does he know the meaning of truth and falsehood...
...Guam, Jap stragglers, who had hidden out for 16 months, ambushed four U.S. marines who had gone out to investigate reports of gunfire in the jungle. Despite serious wounds, one of the four managed to get away, crawled to a native village...
...Confused? A hastily gathered staff meeting decided that the Jap note meant war, that a warning should go immediately to Hawaii, the Philippines, the West Coast, the Canal. General Marshall called Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations. "Betty" Stark thought by some obscure reasoning that further warnings would "only confuse" field commanders...
...jungle bivouacs, he would suddenly awaken, feel the skin tightening on his arms, whisper to his sergeant: "Japan man, Japan man." He was always as right as radar. Once, at Koigi's direction, the Aussies threw a grenade 50 yards up the dense jungle trail, killed an unseen Jap...