Word: jap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over isolated atolls in the Central Pacific Marine planes flew last week, relentlessly exploiting the helpless position of stranded Japs. In less than two months the Marines had flown 2,330 sorties against Jap-held islands in the eastern Marshalls, peppering them with 1,628 tons of bombs. The Marines were working off some private wrath. The Japs were unlucky enough to be there to catch...
Wake and Midway. On that day four battered old Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
They fought at Midway, where Major Loften R. Henderson power-dived his flaming bomber onto a Jap carrier and Captain Richard E. Fleming, with his plane in flames, led his squadron against another carrier; Fleming was last seen hurtling into the sea. Eighty-four Marines flew against the Japs during the crisis at Midway; 38 were killed. Said Admiral Chester Nimitz to their commanding officer at Midway: "The sacrifices of your heroic men have not been in vain. . . . They dealt the enemy carriers the first blow and they spearheaded our great victory...
They called their squadrons by such fancy names as "Hellhawks," "Fighting Falcons" (whose Captain James E. Swett destroyed seven Jap dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...
...British, who knew good men when they saw them, put them at machine guns in General Grant tanks headed for the front. The 13-hour assault on Jap positions that followed turned out to be one of the fiercest battles yet waged in those hills...