Word: jap
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...Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
...Raid. The Jap was close enough to hear the engines when they began to roar. But by then it was too late. The P-40s streaked across this field and across the trees. They were lightly loaded with gas (it was to be a short trip), heavily loaded with bombs (but a lively...
...bits & pieces been stuck together with more resourcefulness than into the planes that flew that day. The raid had been a smashing success. MacArthur's P-40s, doing a job they were never built to do, had sunk 30,000 tons of shipping (three transports), had chewed up Jap small craft, too. Caught with his finger in his mouth, the Jap had never got a single plane off the ground, had been slow on the draw with his antiaircraft...
...Future. While they did, Corregidor heard from other U.S. soldiers, white and Filipino. Far north in Luzon, a guerrilla band burst out of the woods and smashed a Jap truck train. Through the mountainous reaches of the island came rumblings of other raids, of soldiers organizing civilians into the kind of warfare the Japanese in the islands fear most...
...islands of the Visayan Sea, and far south in Mindanao, where a small U.S. force was still intact, there must have been more activity of the same kind. The Japanese ordered all civilians to turn in their cutting instruments, even the bolos they use to cut underbrush. Then the Jap landed troops and tanks on the island of Mindoro, across Verde Inland Passage from Luzon...