Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take John Walker, who faced Jap mortar fire with the Marines landing in the Palaus and who almost lost his life on Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
Annalee Jacoby, packing her belongings at the Press Hostel in Chungking to follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
...planes swooped over Jap prison stockades to drop food and supplies. U.S. trucks and cars wheeled into prison compounds to pick up bony, half-naked men. Aboard U.S. transports and hospital ships they were bathed, fed, clothed, given medical treatment. Then, like men awakened from nightmares, they talked...
...milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited to visiting Jap generals...
Politeness. Thanks to the Jap trick of not reporting many a prisoner, there was the cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...