occupationaire
English
Noun
occupationaire (plural occupationaires)
- (historical) A member of the Allied military forces that occupied Japan at the end of World War II.
- 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 32)
- Initial greetings came from the first contingent of occupationaires: the outer jetty sported outsized black and red letters reading “KILROY,” a nod to the graffiti produced by GIs during the war.
- 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 32)