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plural occupationaires
(historical) A member of the Allied military forces that occupied Japan at the end of World War II. quotations
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