Word: jap
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...being encountered. Snipers hit their mark only once in 20 to 40 shots, but they shot so much that they caused numerous casualties. Well-disciplined troops ignored the snipers, considering such poor marksmen beneath their notice, but the snipers strained the morale of unseasoned troops. A curious point about Jap snipers: their effectiveness in critical moments suggested that they might not be trying too hard, lest their proficiency lead to stronger measures for their elimination...
...Neurotics. "Sleeping in foxholes, sometimes half-filled from rain, is rigidly prescribed in better-disciplined regiments," cabled Edmundson. "If you have never spent twelve hours of darkness lying in a foxhole near Jap lines, with their snipers in your own perimeter sending occasional zinging shots in your direction, you cannot make proper allowance for men sometimes seized by jungle neurosis who begin wielding their machetes wildly or tossing grenades promiscuously across the area. In the tenseness of the long jungle nights, every sound and circumstance takes on the aspect of terror. Exhausted soldiers are forbidden to snore lest they attract...
They landed on Adak four days before the infantry. They were on Amchitka long before the main body of troops. On Attu they guided soldiers fresh from the States over trackless, snow-covered mountains. Late in June they led reconnaissance troops on Aggatu to make certain that no Jap was still there. And when the Army goes after Kiska, the Alaska Scouts will surely again be in the vanguard...
...eleven fights, only once has he been scared. When the Japs raided Oro Bay last March, Dicks Bong made a pass at a dive-bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...
...Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes the U.S.-Jap war. It is as savage as anything in the history of screen roughhouse. But as symbol, the result is rather ominous. Ryan finally punches the Jap to the floor, is last seen dying from the effects of indescribable Japanese torture. Taro is shot down in flames by U.S. planes...