Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first suicide attack I saw was last winter, against a ship from which I had recently been detached. I had the excruciating experience of watching a flaming furnace which contained many of my friends. Seven Jap planes got through the fighter screen. Six were shot down, but the seventh crashed my old ship. It poured a column of smoke 300 feet high. Through the black an occasional explosion pitched roaring flames...
...little less than an hour after the original attack the Japs came in again. This time there were six, and five were knocked down by fire from various ships. The "last bored in toward the wounded craft. The pilot was diving in low, at about a 15-degree angle. Terrific ack-ack poured into his plane and soon it was burning. But the Jap never wavered. He smacked into the middle of the smoke and a huge billow of orange-red flame reached...
...west coast, from which the Japs had twice launched offensives that reached India's borders, the British had another significant reconquest. They captured Taungup, the port at the end of the Jap supply line. General Slim could sight the end of three years of seesaw campaigns in the Arakan mountains. Of all Burma he could say: "Final victory is near...
...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...
Rockefeller Jr., lost his individualistic Army-grown mustache when it was badly singed by flash burns in a Jap air attack off Okinawa. In a hospital on Guam with hand and face burns that will leave no scars, he pronounced himself "very lucky...