Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy volunteers, mostly medical personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
October: MacArthur returned to the Philippines, at Leyte. The Jap fleet had its back broken in Second Battle of the Philippine...
...January: MacArthur invaded Luzon. Halsey's Third Fleet invaded the South China Sea, sank 41 Jap ships...
...Burma, a Jap army had been routed with 128,000 counted dead; only disease-ridden remnants were left (except on the Tenasserim coast) to surrender to Admiral Mountbatten's Twelfth and Fourteenth Armies and to the Burmese National Army...
Died. Henry Waters Taft, 86, brother of the late President, onetime tobacco trustbuster under Theodore Roosevelt; after a hip injury; in Manhattan. Long interested in improving U.S. -Jap relations, when they were considered improvable, he was decorated in 1929 by Emperor Hirohito - with the Order of the Double Rays of the Rising Sun, Second Class...