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Word: mikuma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Night | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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