Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater was watery and vast, extending from the Kurils to Jap-held Java, from the Carolines to central China. The job was vast. Thailand, Indo-China, Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies-a world in themselves-had to be cleared. China had to be freed. Before victory, Japan had to be brought to the same terms as the other Axis partner: unconditional surrender...
...chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
Kamikaze Navy. Almost simultaneously guns roared out from the U.S. ships anchored off the island. Torpedo-nosed Jap suicide boats were attacking in force. Blinding flashes filled the night as the little boats were hit and exploded. Fifteen of them were destroyed; one got through and damaged a ship...
With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...