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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
World War II in Pictures- Mountbatten announces Operation Dracula: The amphibious assault on Japanese held Rangoon- 2 April 1945.
Allied prisoners of war in the city, frustrated at their position being being bombed, wrote the phrase "Extract Digit" (meaning 'pull your finger out of your a**') on the rooftop because they felt it was clear slang that would indicate to pilots that their message 'Japs Gone' wasn't a Japanese ruse designed to confuse the attackers. The Japanese had indeed already left the city!
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