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Word: takeji (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita, Jo Kitakawa and Inosuke Sakue, fastened to themselves a firing bomb three metres long and jumped into the wire entanglements. The bomb exploded with a loud detonation, smashing the three heroes and the barbed wire to pieces. These heroes died a desperate death, opening a way for the infantrymen to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Human Torpedoes'' | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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