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...Carter came back into the foxhole, two Japs charged. Carter fired twice, but his new rifle jammed, too. He grabbed a Jap rifle, yesterday's souvenir, and impaled one of the attackers on its bayonet. The other Jap swung his saber, split Carter's hand. But Bill Harrell still had one hand left. He raised the carbine, shot the saber-waving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Two Friends from Texas | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...secrecy in their ordinary talk. Yet, hauled before the Japs, they held their tongues despite unspeakable tortures. Some had hoses shoved down their gullets till the water pressure swelled them like balloons. A girl, Tonie, who had brought supplies to Tweed, was beaten with telephone wire, eviscerated with a bayonet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Jap-held Guam | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

July 2-At dawn visited the place where my friend lay dead with a bayonet wound in his head. Covered him with grass and leaves. Upon returning ate a meal of hard tack and pickled prunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Emperor's Flower Petals | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Army's side of the line, small units of troops crouched expectantly, their long rifles bayonet-tipped. Then they moved stealthily out into the haze, as many a patrol squad had done before. But they were more than patrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: Red Friday | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar on his arm, gets bored-especially after a humdrum day on the job at a New Jersey rubber plant. Mike ordered still another drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Homecoming | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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