Nevertheless, six decades after V-J Day nearly three hundred thousand American troops are stationed overseas, including fifty-five thousand in Germany, thirty-five thousand in Japan, and ten thousand in Italy.

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With a handful of players with international league experience (Cha Jong-Hyok plays for Swiss FC Wil in Europe, and three others are on Japanese J-League and Russian teams), the team fell short in the group stage of the World Cup finals but played some brilliant soccer along the way and just may have created an opportunity for history.

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Only three of the storied J-boats that sailed in the America's Cup and other competitions in the 1930s actually survived the ship breakers.

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The Knicks got one last triple a 25-foot three by sixth man J.

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J-1's muscular new engines should allow it to put three times the payload of its predecessor into orbit.

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