Word: jap
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...thought that the Jap had quit. No one thought seriously that MacArthur's men were to be evacuated, or that they would get help. But while the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East were on their feet the fight would go on, blackly determined in action, flecked with the fine gold of good American humor when it got a breathing spell...
...except the front-line areas, the worst nuisance and the most pregnant occasion for levity were intermittent bombings by the Jap. "Keep 'em falling" became the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan. Melville Jacoby. TIME correspondent on Corregidor, reported that the Jap was losing one out of every seven planes to fire from the ground...
...Marine was lugged under cover. There, while bombs rocked the building. Captain Kysor removed the fragment and coolly dressed the wound. The Marine was carried downstairs. Dr. Kysor remained behind. A few minutes later the Jap registered a direct hit on the hospital and Dr. Kysor died...
What is a submarine menace? It is certainly not the scatter-aim, hope-to-hit show that Jap subs have put on off the Pacific Northwest. It is, in 1942, a grim thing...
...told of the world's great short-wave stations now in Nazi hands: of the powerful Amsterdam radio, well heard in the Netherlands East Indies, which had been pumping out tales of U.S. weakness, Jap might for months before war broke in the Pacific; of Radio Falange in Madrid and Radio Vichy, whose assignment is to revile Yankee culture and Yankee "imperialism" for Latin American ears; of Radio Saīgon, now an instrument of Jap propaganda in Southern Asia...