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the eerie darkness, enemy soldiers called out the names of individual Americans with such pleas as “Smitty, help, I’m wounded. Come over and get me!” At times, they cursed President Roosevelt or his wife, Eleanor. The Americans responded with the most common insult of the Pacific War, “Tojo eats shit!”
Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
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