Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese named Nagano had an American named Knox feeling jittery last week. Osami Nagano is Chief of Japan's Naval Staff, and last week his Navy was up to no good in the South Pacific. U.S. Navy Secretary Frank Knox, just back from the South Pacific with his cheeks full of optimism, grew a little jumpy in a press conference when reporters began asking what Nagano's ships were doing...
Knox's Point. The difficulty of knowing what Admiral Osami Nagano has planned is far more than the usual difficulty of guessing an enemy's moves. That is partly because Nagano, in a race of inscrutable men, is notoriously tight of tongue, partly because the Japanese have a mania for secrecy. It is perhaps mostly because probabilities about the Japanese in war cannot be based on the ordinary human standards. Japs fight differently...
...rendezvous in the Indian Ocean somewhere off Madagascar went Germany's thin-lipped Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz and Japan's pudgy Admiral Osami Nagano. What the honorable Doenitz said to the honorable Nagano was not revealed by the Swedish paper which reported the meeting last week. But-if they met-a good guess was that they discussed the highly effective German submarine campaign-a defensive campaign which cannot win the war for Hitler, but can indefinitely delay an Allied victory...
With his four stars, Tommy Hart outranks his opposite number in the Japanese Navy, Vice Admiral Mineichi Koga. Only Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Admiral Osami Nagano, Chief of the Naval General Staff, boast equal status...