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1944: Japan
The year 1944 was not an encouraging one for Japan's war lords or for the Japanese people. Everywhere, save in China, Japan was on the defensive. Her military forces had been expelled (in some cases by-passed) from the Marshalls and from some of the Caroline Islands by American forces. The Mariana...
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