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...Japs made efforts (sometimes successful) to keep relations good. They gave natives the same medical treatment they gave their own men, established first-aid stations for bomb victims, paid for coconut trees they destroyed. And Jap enlisted men were prohibited from entering native homes. Said one Guam native: "High Jap officers would come in and eat with us. I liked Jap equality better. The Americans made us feel as if we were inferior...
...year-old Chamorro told a story that had all the melodrama of an oldtime cowboy-and-Indian two-reeler. The better-looking girls, she said, had to take turns going to the Jap officers' camp to cook-and "for other things." Her turn was due, she said, "the day the Americans came-just in time...
Land, Sea and Air Trap. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Fifth Air Force (later combined with the South Pacific's Thirteenth into the Far Eastern Air Force) smashed Jap air power and made the sea lanes impassable for Jap supply ships. PT boats shot up barges which the Japs tried to use as a substitute...
From then on, the pattern was so consistent that even the beleagured Jap commanding the Second Army should have been able to figure it out: Wakde Island-on May 17; Biak on May 27; Noemfoor on July 2. But the Jap apparently persisted in the conviction that MacArthur's next move would be against Second Army headquarters at Manokwari...
...been lost at Hengyang. The Jap had been delayed and suffered costly losses. The Chinese and their flying American allies fought on to block a juncture between the enemy advancing from the north and the enemy stalled in the south 40 miles above Canton. The Chinese were convinced that the Japs would persist in their campaign to bring the entire railroad under their control, and thus cut China in two. They were equally convinced that the outside world did not appreciate the seriousness of the threat...