Word: tomoyuki
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Finally, on April Fools' Eve, the assault came. Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita had held back for weeks, planning, grouping his forces, flexing his muscles. For ten days he had bombarded both Bataan and Corregidor, as if those were things to be softened. The world, knowing an attack was coming, expected it to break Bataan...
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...lull in fighting may have meant that porcine General Tomoyuki Yamashita was readying what he hopes will be the final offensive against Bataan's defenders. In any event, the front MacArthur left was quieter than the one he went...
...devious grapevine of military information, the U.S. Army on Bataan Peninsula this week wrung a gratifying drop of sap. The Japanese had done so badly on Luzon that a new commander had been sent to clean out the remnants of Douglas MacArthur's little force. The substitute: General Tomoyuki Yamashita (TIME, March 2), bandy-legged, pout-bellied commander of the Jap army in its swift, destructive rush through Malaya...
...they lead an attack on Russia, they will not be doing so because Adolf Hitler orders them to. They will be doing so because they are able and ready to do it. They will be able to do it because they- especially their Tomoyuki Yamashita-were able to learn lessons well...