Word: nagoya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then came the blow. MPs swooped down on the nuns' shack. Food, clothing and bedding were confiscated. At the provost marshal's office the bewildered priest was grilled for the names of his benefactors. The Engineer lieutenant and two enlisted men, awaiting a ship at Nagoya to take them home for Christmas, were ordered back to Matsuyama for an investigation and possible court-martial. The entire Engineer Battalion was restricted...
Whatever gods occupied Japan was turning to, they were not the overthrown gods of State Shinto. At the Grand Shrine of Ise, during the New Year's festival, only 80,000 worshippers appeared; in previous years 400,000 came. At the famed Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, where once 2,000,000 made their pilgrimage, the number dropped...
Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
Last week the pestilential camps of the Japanese Empire continued to disgorge their victims (2,900 from Niigata, 3,495 from Nagoya, 1,100 from Tientsin). The record of horror grew. From Australia came a story of the flogging and raping of nuns in New Britain, of Jap cannibalism practiced on the bodies of U.S. and Australian soldiers. The stories, which seemed to have no end, differed only in the details of calculated cruelty...
...last, they did what any bomber's crewmen do at the end of a mission: they told what had happened to their targets. Two of them, Lieut. Robert I. Hite of Earth, Texas and Sergeant Jacob de Shazer of Madras, Ore., had fired fuel tanks and factories in Nagoya. Lieut. C. J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah had flown over Tokyo, seen his plane's bombs explode in steel mills and a foundry...