Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss. On Okinawa, a Jap sniper took careful aim, shot Private Kenneth W. Cunningham right through the heart-or where his heart should have been. Private Cunningham, whose heart is on the wrong side, survived...
...Surrender must mean, unconditionally, the end of Jap militarism. But it will not mean enslavement of the people. They will still have the chance to earn their way in a peaceful world, when they have shown that they can be peaceful...
Time to Talk. The timing of the statement has not been set. In general, it is considered that it should coincide with a major military blow. Thus Jap militarists could not interpret the statement as a sign of U.S. weakening or war-weariness...
...Japs decided not to fight: not a single Zeke or Jack, Tony or Nick rose to challenge the U.S. fighters as they swooped on the airfields. It was a bombing and strafing job: 109 Jap planes were wrecked on the ground; 231 more were hit. The CAP boys over the fleet had better airmen's luck-two Jap reconnaissance planes had turned up to be shot down...
Interesting. In Baltimore, Marine Pfc. Edmund Egbert, dutifully filling out a questionnaire, described his "most interesting" war experience: "The day I got hit I had an experience with a Jap whereas we went around and around a rock that is which led to bloodshed first his and then mine...