Word: jap
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...will not happen again. Example: the indifference of the lieutenant cited by last winter's Roberts report who disregarded a soldier's warning that planes were approaching from 130 miles away. The Flying Fortresses which landed at Pearl Harbor during the battle might have shot down every Jap attacker except for one thing: they had been sent from California innocent of ammunition...
...Jap two-man submarine slipped into Pearl Harbor at 5 a.m. Dec. 7, gathered information for Jap carriers and departed...
...Buzz" Wagner except in superlatives. He was to them the best, the bravest, the hottest pilot-and the swellest guy-in the Air Forces. They said he could buzz the camouflage off the top of a hangar without touching it. Once, in the Philippines, he shot down a Jap Zero while he was flying upside down. He knew how to get between the Japs and the sun, then pop them off while they were blinded...
...Force. Among the men on Bataan Wagner attained the proportions of a superman. After the first few hours his P-4O squadron had nearly all its planes shot down or destroyed on the ground. Buzz and a few others carried on, strafing airfields as soon as the Japs landed planes on them, tossing bombs and hand grenades out of their cockpits, even sinking small transports with .50-caliber bullets. One day over Vigan, Buzz and Russ Church saw 30 newly arrived Jap bombers lined up on the field. Two Zeros intercepted. Lieut. Church got one, Lieut. Wagner the other. Church...
...younger than himself the 25-year-old lieutenant colonel sat under eucalyptus trees and expounded the kill-or-be-killed philosophy which President Roosevelt and Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair were to adopt in their speeches months later. "You've got to get in there and kill the Jap or he'll kill you," said Buzz...