Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
...answer was simpler than the commanders' problems were. Months before V-J day, the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington foresaw the enormous complexities involved in taking the surrender of some 5,000,000 Jap troops and civilians, scattered from Manchuria to Java. On V-J day all Allied commanders -U.S., British, Chinese - in the Asiatic theaters had a directive instructing them to 1 ) do anything necessary to facilitate the Jap surrender; 2) rescue and protect Allied personnel and property; 3) do all this without involving Allied personnel or arms in "fratricidal strife...
Every move so far, from Dairen to Batavia, has been according to orders and according to plan. The British went to Java to take the surrender of the Jap forces and protect Allied (i.e., Dutch) lives and property. In doing so they found themselves fighting Indonesian Nationalists who are not Allies and are against the Dutch. Chinese troops moved into Indo-China - but only into the area which was part of the China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there...
Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large Javanese forces, well armed with Jap equipment, including tanks, had some 100 casualties. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" flew from Batavia to give a cease-fire order. The next day native hotheads killed Surabaya's British Commander, Brigadier Aubertin W. S. Mallaby...
British reconnaissance showed that up to 100,000 Indonesian troops, whose Jap materiel included 62 planes, were massing in central Java. The British themselves began landing a second division, rushed up more warships and planes. Most of the British troops were Indian soldiers who had little liking...