Word: kita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s, the few paintings of Japanese defeat seemed absurdly dignified. Renzo Kita's Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi showed the Admiral among his officers on the flaming flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hiryo, preparing with a tight smile to toast the Emperor in sake...
...Giretsu (unsurpassed loyalists) special attack airborne units, commanded by Captain Michio Okuyama, daringly landed amid the enemy in Kita and Naka airfields on the main Okinawa Island. . . . Upon landing they promptly blasted grounded enemy aircraft, munitions depots and airfield installations in rapid succession and are achieving great war results by throwing the enemy into confusion-Japanese Communiqu...
Tomorrow, Famine. Whatever Japan's goal, she put a lot of muscle behind her drive: perhaps two full divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran...