Word: kwantung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion that the Japs will not accept the terms. Personally, I hope they do not. Although we have certainly destroyed their fleet and are in a fair way to destroy their industry, none of the major ground forces have yet been defeated. If the Kwantung Army [in Manchuria] comes out of this without being defeated and the Japanese homeland itself is not invaded, I feel that we will be heading for trouble in another 40 years...
Powerful forces are ranged along the border. At peak strength the Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
...young officers" of the hotheaded Kwantung Army clique thought of him as an old dodderer, a "moderate," an obstacle to the quick construction of Dai Nippon (Great Japan). One February night in 1936 they called at his house. The Grand Chamberlain had just come through Tokyo's snowy streets from dinner and movies at the U.S. Embassy-a "happy evening," Ambassador Joseph Grew noted in his diary. The young officers had just come from their barracks, with swords and submachine guns...
...defenders. But the Japs by steady reinforcement had replaced them, then had landed 10,000 more. Jap units identified included the 16th Division (now virtually annihilated, said MacArthur), the 1st, 30th, 102nd and the crack 26th Division which had last been heard of as a part of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria...
Last week, more than 100 B-29 Superfortresses roared out to attack Anshan, with smaller diversionary blows at Dairen, on the Kwantung Peninsula, and at Loyang and Kaifeng, in occupied China. Every plane that left the ground returned safely-adding to the evidence that the last bugs are being driven out of the giant bombers. Radioed happy General ("Hap") Arnold to the 20th Bombardment Group: "I reserve a special pat on the back for your ground crews and all maintenance and supply crews...