Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order in the Court. As the testimony wore on, formality lent the proceedings the curious improbability of a bad horror play. But twice there were real and savage scenes. A Chinese woman, who had seen her baby bayoneted, stared at Yamashita from the stand, cried: "That Jap is to blame. He's got to be killed to pay for what he's done!" A slim Filipino girl halted her testimony, cried in a low, tense voice: "You still have the face to look at me, Yamashita. If I could only get near you. You ought...
...named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero had to be viewed in exceedingly unheroic surroundings...
...message alerted Jap forces to be ready to go to war when they received a weather report with the words "East Wind, Rain ; East Wind, Rain." Then that very weather report, so the story goes, was intercepted by the U.S. on Dec. 4. But, as best as can now be learned, all the files which would show such intercepted messages are missing...
...their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved by the Jap High Command early in November 1941 and that the Imperial General Headquarters had set the date...
...miracle had to be worked, U.S. aviators were the men to work it. At war's end, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek asked the Army Air Forces to work one more. To implement the policy of getting National Government troops to places where they were needed to take Jap surrenders, the A.A.F. took over a massive task: to fly several armies to the east and north...