Word: jap
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Mindful of Germany's prodigious efforts to go underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...
...fighter pilot radioed that he was going down in a small bay on the Japanese coast. A PBY Dumbo received his message, sighted him, but got hit by several Jap antiaircraft shells. The Dumbo retreated and radioed for fighter cover. While the fighters strafed the Jap gun emplacement, the PBY landed on the water, picked up the pilot...
...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...
...raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
Douglas MacArthur's announcement that this was just the beginning of full-scale attacks on the city gave the Japs a bad case of jitters. Shanghai is the main port through which they keep their continental armies supplied. To bomb Shanghai was to cut at the very roots of the Jap position in Asia...