Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila street a Jap soldier held a 15-year-old girl's head up by pulling at her hair, hacked at her neck with a sword as she prayed for mercy...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, back from a tour of bombed Jap cities, pined for more distant latitudes: "The thing I'd like to do most is go back to the South Pole...
Major Charles Boxer, freed from a Jap prison camp and from his ex-wife in England, sailed for the U.S. and Author Emily Hahn, who told the world in her autobiography (China to Me) that Boxer was the father of her four-year-old daughter. Said he, before leaving Hong Kong: "It would be much better if we were married . . . more convenient when staying at hotels." Said she, in Manhattan: "I think we'll try for one more...
After his return from China a year ago, Robert W. Prescott, 32, a former Flying Tiger (six Jap planes) and Hump-hopper for the China National Aviation Corp., began writing unsentimental letters to his old buddies. His letters made one point: he was looking for money and talent to build a U.S. counterpart of the C.N.A.C...
...baby-faced Robert F. ("Duke") Hedman, who had shot down six Japs, and had flown the Hump 350 times, had an unemployed $10,000. Joe Rosbert (six Jap planes), who once crashed in the Himalayas and walked out in 46 days, threw in $10,000, took a job as chief pilot. J.R. ("Dick") Rossi, also a six-plane man, got his letter in India after his 600th Hump crossing. Wrote Prescott: "Rossi, put that drink in your left hand and tell me what you're doing." Rossi joined...