Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific, with the landings on Okinawa, the U.S. juggernaut moved within 400 miles of the Jap mainland...
...merciless U.S. advance continued, Kawacuchi, a corpsman in a division hospital, made daily entries in his diary. He recorded, as well as it has been done anywhere, the strange mixture of animal courage and fatalism which motivates the U.S. enemy in the Pacific. This week, as a still greater Jap garrison on Okinawa felt the weight of U.S. arms, the Office of Censorship released Kawacuchi's diary [which had been found by a U.S. Naval officer]. Excerpts...
British Columbians generally applauded the Commission's plan. Some even thought it was too lenient (in the Provincial Legislature last fortnight, the Government's agriculture committee recommended legislation making it illegal for Canadian Japs, wherever born, to own or lease any land or business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier...
...Jap broadcaster thus described the havoc wrought by last fortnight's great B-29 fire raid on the Japanese capital. U.S. airmen gave much of the credit to a new type of incendiary bomb called...
...While Jap cities blazed, the R.A.F. was dropping on Germany the biggest explosive bomb of all. Called variously "volcano bomb," "townbuster" and "Ten-Ton Tess" (eleven tons, by U.S. measure), it carves an enormous crater (see cut), tossing up divots weighing five tons apiece...