Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spread along the ultimate peninsula, of Southeast Asia, from southern Burma through the Kra Isthmus to Malaya, were perhaps 100,000 Japanese, including two divisions for the defense of Singapore...
When the next-to-last major enemy pocket on Okinawa (on Oroku Peninsula) was being mopped up, as many as 145 Japs surrendered in a single day. It almost seemed that the lower ranks might be seeing the light. But the prisoners were mostly Okinawan and Korean service troops, far from typical of Jap fighting men. The typical attitude was shown by Jap officers who shot their enlisted men for trying to surrender. And for each soldier who even tried, there were many more who willingly killed themselves...
...Seventh Fleet stood in to Brunei Bay in northwest Borneo. Off went the landing craft, with less than a division of hardbitten, hard-swearing Australian veterans. One week later, with spectacular ease, they had conquered a major harbor, three airfields, three towns, two islands and a peninsula. With minor losses, they had given General Douglas MacArthur a military base midway between Manila and Singapore, virtually choked off the South China Sea and opened new fields for Allied bombers. After two visits ashore, the General exulted: "Rarely was such a strategic prize obtained at such a low cost of lives...
...fighting men doing the job had to face a curtain of fire from rifles, rockets, machine guns, 20-and 40-mm. guns and mortars. The balance of the enemy remnants fought with the same stubbornness on Oroku Peninsula...
However exaggerated Yenan's claims might be, it was clear that their forces had seeped across North China, from the Yellow River to the Shantung Peninsula and down the coast. Though they had been poorly armed in the past (they even used wooden cannon-see cut-which they actually fired from), they now seemed better armed. They had already begun a surreptitious investment of Shanghai, China's biggest city and biggest port, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, control of which carries with it control of most of southern China...