Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. Some of the Jap flyers managed to get down to their targets; three U.S. destroyers were hit and sunk. But the Japs had sent upward of 500 planes into action; of these, 245 were intercepted and destroyed on their way to Okinawa, and 116 were shot down at Okinawa...
...Jap planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
...first the Japs faded before these thrusts. Casualties were light. Yontan Airfield, one of the most valuable military objectives on the island, was taken at a cost of two dead and nine injured. A Marine battalion, hunting the elusive enemy, managed to find and kill but four in 24 hours. Wrote one-Army colonel to another: "Please send us a dead Jap. A lot of my men have never seen one. We'll bury...
...Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...
Baron Suzuki belongs to a bygone generation of Jap empire-builders. He was an up-&-coming naval officer during Japan's war against China's decadent Manchu Empire (1894-5) and against Russia's hapless Tsarist Navy (1904-5). Before his retirement in 1927, he rose to the Navy's supreme command. Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which...