Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many more of such backwash wars to be fought. In Celebes, Java, Timor, Halmahera and countless other Pacific Islands there are perhaps 165.000 Jap holdouts, isolated but still untouched by the Allies. There is little question that they are there to stay until the Aussies rout them out and kill them...
...More Japs came. Harrell killed two with his carbine, at 25 yards. Another Jap popped into the ravine below. Carter got him. Then his Garand jammed...
...Carter came back into the foxhole, two Japs charged. Carter fired twice, but his new rifle jammed, too. He grabbed a Jap rifle, yesterday's souvenir, and impaled one of the attackers on its bayonet. The other Jap swung his saber, split Carter's hand. But Bill Harrell still had one hand left. He raised the carbine, shot the saber-waving Jap...
...raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
Douglas MacArthur's announcement that this was just the beginning of full-scale attacks on the city gave the Japs a bad case of jitters. Shanghai is the main port through which they keep their continental armies supplied. To bomb Shanghai was to cut at the very roots of the Jap position in Asia...