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...workers of a construction company, headed by John Payne, sustain heavy losses of men while building a Navy strip on a Pacific island which is attacked twice by the Japanese. An ambush designed to trap the Japanese fails of success because of the blundering of Payne, who leads his men--armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
...India in October, soon got used to the Burma jungle. From Ledo last month they began their 100-mile circling march to the rear of the Japanese concentrations at Maingkwan, averaging 20 miles a day down crude trails Kachin tribes of Burmese had hacked many years ago. To avoid ambush, greatest terror of jungle warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance squads always patrolled the trails ahead of and behind their columns. Only once were they fooled by a grass dummy which was covered by a Jap machine gun- two men were killed but the lesson was learned...
...farm of Antonio ("Tony, they call me in the United States") the trap had been laid. Two German paratroopers had stolen Tony's chickens for Christmas. They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
...plants were silent and its people hid in dark corners. Atop the cliff German soldiers were building new defenses. Beyond the river two grimy, shattered railroad stations echoed the rumble of troop trains. And from the forests guerrillas watched the city, and emerged at night to derail German trains, ambush convoys, kill sentries...
...Ambush With Gloves. Besides the nightly fights, the Division promotes mass boxing in two spectacular ways: battle royal (to stress individual combat), reconnaissance fighting (to stress group combat). In the battle royal, watched over by steel-helmeted instructors to see that no one is maimed, two platoons are pitted against each other-the members of one platoon fighting in undershirts to distinguish them from their opponents. In reconnaissance fighting, a squad, hands in gloves, is sent out on reconnaissance. Somewhere along the way two other squads, armed with gloves, ambush the patrol...