Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years, eight months, three days and 75,000 American lives after Pearl Harbor, the Japs were beaten. They knew it, and they wanted to quit "as quickly as possible...
...chronology of the War in the Pacific, Japan's peak in territorial gains came eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. But even before the attack had reached flood tide, the counterattack had begun...
...Crommelin, class of '31, won a D.F.C. over Marcus Island in September 1943, won another by leading the Yorktown's air group during the Gilberts invasion. That was when he brought his plane back despite 200 wounds, then insisted on debarking from the ambulance and visiting the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club "to show those kids it's not so tough to be shot up." Richard Crommelin, '28, had started gathering medals even earlier: a Navy Cross for the Coral Sea, another for Midway...
That power is a stark and appalling fact. It will be so appraised in every capital. Liberated Europe, hypersensitive to power, will note it well. Asia, where occidental prestige plummeted after Pearl Harbor and Singapore, will record...
...discernible, immediate effect on Japan last week was concerned, the Potsdam offer of surrender terms (TIME, Aug. 6) was a flop. The Suzuki Cabinet had specifically rejected the terms. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the dry old man who was talking peace in Washington on Pearl Harbor day, called the terms "the height of impertinence." The controlled Japanese press and radio played them up as though they were good for home morale. An "extremely indignant" civilian letter-writer to a Japanese newspaper denounced the Potsdam declaration for "scheming to alienate the military and civilians." Said he: "The war's responsibility rests...