Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, they arrived in Yokohama, where a Jap officer struck Zamperini's nose with a flashlight because, when they were transporting him in a sedan, he could not get his long legs under a jump seat...
...swam into the sea, was recaptured. A Jap soldier poured gasoline on his foot and set it afire, finally set fire to his other foot and to both his hands. In the end the Japs bayoneted their victim, poured gasoline over him and watched the flames until his body was consumed...
Last week the pestilential camps of the Japanese Empire continued to disgorge their victims (2,900 from Niigata, 3,495 from Nagoya, 1,100 from Tientsin). The record of horror grew. From Australia came a story of the flogging and raping of nuns in New Britain, of Jap cannibalism practiced on the bodies of U.S. and Australian soldiers. The stories, which seemed to have no end, differed only in the details of calculated cruelty...
...weeks that followed weeks, that was all they had. Morbidly Philips and Maclntyre made Zamperini prepare imaginary meals for them, "describing the preparation of each dish, even to the exact quantity of each ingredient." "How Long Will I Last?" On the 27th day a Jap plane spotted them, dived and raked them with machine-gun fire. Philips and Maclntyre, too weak to move, lay in the rafts feigning death. Zamperini went overboard, ducking under each time the Jap plane made a pass, until it finally went away. Unscathed, the three men floated...
Guards, jabbing them with pointed sticks, made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...