Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than three years the Navy's biggest,*oldest carrier had fought through the Pacific war, taken two submarine torpedoes but never a hit from an enemy aircraft. On that February afternoon, as she was launching her own planes off Iwo Jima, nine Jap planes closed...
...Pacific. Also back in the Pacific, after extensive repairs at the overworked Bremerton Yard: the veteran light cruiser Nashville, the destroyers Haraden and Lamson-all victims of Kamikaze planes. And at San Francisco's Mare Island Yard was the destroyer Hazelwood, topsides wrecked after an encounter with Jap suicide planes...
When the next-to-last major enemy pocket on Okinawa (on Oroku Peninsula) was being mopped up, as many as 145 Japs surrendered in a single day. It almost seemed that the lower ranks might be seeing the light. But the prisoners were mostly Okinawan and Korean service troops, far from typical of Jap fighting men. The typical attitude was shown by Jap officers who shot their enlisted men for trying to surrender. And for each soldier who even tried, there were many more who willingly killed themselves...
Japanese prisoners were being taken as never before-although still not in large numbers. Four waved a white flag to a cub plane, threw away their rifles, trudged into infantry lines to give up. Two souvenir-hunting doughboys came back with 28 live Japs. Another Jap, surrendering to a sergeant, explained in fluent English, "I know Germany has fallen and our situation on Luzon is hopeless." Still another turned to his captors and asked plaintively: "What is it you have that breaks our Bushido spirit...
...days after this return he copped one live prisoner with a flying tackle, turned him over to a second soldier to hold, then chased a second Jap, who promptly sat down and pulled out a hara-kiri grenade. Thoughtfully Sergeant Brown stopped, took out a cigaret and lit it. The Jap's face brightened. Brown replaced his .45 in its holster, walked up to the Jap and offered him a cigaret. The Jap put down his grenade for a moment to accept the gift . . . Brown went to Manila again...