Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap corporal, attached to headquarters of the Central Army District, was in a hotel and put his head out the window when he heard the drone of engines overhead. "I looked up," he said in a Tokyo radio interview, "and simultaneously a lightning-like flash covered the whole sky, blinding my eyes. Unconsciously, I dived for cover and a torn quilt miraculously was blown over me, which I hugged to myself for dear life...
...Jap Rout. The Kwantung Army, under Russia-hating General Otozo Yamada, showed that its reputation had been won with propaganda. Nowhere did it offer effective opposition...
...carriers met a Jap task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought it to a draw. Result: Japan's plan to invade Australia was thwarted...
June: At Midway the Jap fleet was defeated in one of the decisive battles of world history...
August: The marines landed on Guadalcanal to retake the Jap's southernmost conquest...