Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forces directly under MacArthur's command must take the surrender of Japan's home armies, occupy the four "home islands" (see map), and perhaps Korea...
...first target of atomic bombing, was once Japan's moral cesspool, famed for its teeming whore houses and blackmailing newspapers. Now it is 60% destroyed. Said a U.S. official who knew Hiroshima before the war: "If ever a place needed to be wiped off the face of the map, that place was Hiroshima...
...Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened to the world in 1853. No longer an empire, sprawled over the western Pacific and the Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
From the air, by night or day or through the thickest cloud, it lays open the terrain below like a relief map, showing coastlines, ships, harbors, jetties, mountains, lakes, rivers, bridges, cities. At close range, with the narrowest radar beam, it is possible to see a city's river fronts, avenues, even buildings...
...ship, radar is insurance against collision with icebergs, rocks or other ships; it can take a vessel at full speed through a crowded harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...