Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Yaeju, the 383rd Infantry jumped off and took Yuza Peak. To the east, the 7th Division was battling for a summit 502 feet high when the enemy gave an assist. Jap artillery shelled Jap troops at the top. When the error was dis covered, and the fire lifted, the Japs on the peak were stunned and the 7th Division veterans were able to swarm all over them...
There was no consistent pattern to the Japs' behavior. While a few surrendered (see above), and a few more tried to do so, most of the cut-off enemy groups ran around wildly, then blew themselves to bits with grenades. One captured Jap went out (on his parole to return) and brought in twelve others. Major General Pedro...
Then one of the battalions, its ranks refilled with battle-green replacements, tried again. Once again a hail of Jap fire pinned the troops to the ground. But this time one soldier just kept walking and throwing hand grenades at every Jap he saw. He was Pfc. Clarence B. Craft, a sandy-haired 23-year-old from Santa Ana, Calif., eight months in the Army and brand-new to combat...
...cartoon called Island Hopping shows a steel-spring mannikin stepping triumphantly toward the Jap home fortress over Pacific islands which are not all terra firma...
...monster intricately built of cable, hooks and steel joints prepares to jerk a noose around a Jap's neck-as the Rising Sun sets in the background...