Even though the wing was ripped from the plane, the central ____________ was still intact.
fuselage
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Historians estimate that the Japanese murdered between 200,000 and 430,000 Chinese, including the 90,000 POWs, in what became known as the _______________.
**** of Nanking
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Pillsbury sat in the __________ manning the machine guns amidst gunfire.
turret
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This type of Japanese bomber, the _________________, had a fearsome reputation.
Zero bomber
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Wooden airplanes were meant to be a _____________ and look like real airplanes from the air.
ruse
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Searchlights swung about, their beams reflecting off the clouds and back onto the ground, ____________ scores of Japanese in their sleeping clothes, sprinting in confusion.
illuminating
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To get ___________ readings, one navigator had to stand on a table and dangle out of the roof hatch while a crewman held his legs so he wouldn’t be sucked out.
sextant
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This attack was notorious for the way the Japanese soldiers viciously treated Chinese citizens and prisoners of war.
**** of Nanking
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Japan attacked this U.S. airbase soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wake Atoll
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What was the name of the fearsome Japanese plane?
The Zero
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This instrument can measure the latitude and longitude of the sea.
sextant
15
A ground search for military information
reconnaissance
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To light up
illuminate
15
A sorrowful expression
plaintive
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Equipment used to arm a military
armaments
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A shell, bomb, or grenade that contains a substance that burns with intense heat