Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap-airborne, waterborne or submarine-had come near the fleet; not a bomb had been dropped, not a coastal gun fired...
Only for a few minutes during the run had the fog lifted enough to disclose a ruddy glow over the Jap coast to Allied gunners. Spotting-plane pilots over the targets reported mostly "Visibility lousy," but where the cloud cover broke, near Mito, the spotter radioed: "Keep it up, gang-we're doing beautifully...
Military observers in Washington agreed, cited a significant parallel: last September, when Admiral Halsey began pounding the Philippines, the Jap flyers refused to come up and fight. But in October, at Leyte and in January at Luzon the Japs had plenty of planes ready for the invasion ships...
...their biggest strike to date, more than 600 Superforts took off in a single flight. Two announcements last week gave the Japs even more to worry about: 1) Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force B-29s were due on Okinawa in mid-August; 2) R.A.F. Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd had been in Guam, presumably intent on fulfilling Winston Churchill's promise to send British land-based planes into the Jap...
...Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...