Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Eden, reporting on prison camps in Siam, Burma, Malaya, Java, Borneo, Indo-China and the Philippines: "There are many thousands of prisoners from the British Commonwealth, including India, who are being compelled by the Japanese military to live under tropical jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult...
...their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a silent, rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden and the Ruhr...
...summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno, who took the Trout into Corregidor with ammunition and brought out a cargo oi Manila gold...
...consultant on the polishing of Caltech's famed 200-in. Mt. Wilson telescope. Since 1926 Porter and an enthusiastic partner, Editor Albert G. Ingalls of the Scientific American, have made telescope-making a worldwide hobby; their stargazing clubs now stretch from the U.S. to Java...
...Company "old salts" raised, a pertinent question at the same time--while he was on watch. "Where is the Joe-Pot," said he, referring to that omnipresent reminder, of shipboard tradition, the Java kettle...