Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered Jap prison-camp commander at Keijo, Korea said that he had no instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...
MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
MacArthur had warned the Japs that Allied reconnaissance must continue, but when B-32s droned on photographic missions over the Tokyo region, Zeros attacked. One B-32 had an engine shot out, and its pilot asked the lead plane to slow down so that he could keep up. A Jap fighter pilot cut in on the same frequency, in English : "Yes, please slow down so that I can catch you and shoot you down." Tokyo and Manila exchanged a dozen formal messages and many more informal items. For one thing, the Japs had to have more time to start envoys...
Bitter Tea. When the Japs at last decided to get on with it, MacArthur rubbed the salt of Bataan into their wounds, insisting they use the word as their planes' radio call. During the halfway halt at Ie Shima, one of the Jap crewmen appeared with a bouquet for "peace and friendship." Not an arm was bent in salute. Gaping G.I.s showed more interest in the booted, fur-hatted Jap pilots than in the stubby little men walking over to the Army Transport Command plane (a C-54 Skymaster) assigned to carry them to Manila...
...mile swift flight to Manila was ending, a junior Jap flashed a wad of pre-1929 king-size U.S. bills, and asked permission to tip the flight steward. The answer...