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There were other reminders of Japanese rule. Young men were off fighting as guerrillas. There were very young children, now, whose eyes had a marked and curious slant. Stories of Jap cruelty were told and retold: of the nuns forced at bayonet point to undress and be photographed. And in many a town, signs like "Banzai Restaurant" were visible through the hastily-slapped-on coats of fresh paint...
Actually, the Japs had stiffened before their new troops ever met MacArthur's infantrymen. Major General Frederick Irving's 24th Division, which had drawn one of the biggest shares of the fighting, won the little village of Cavite after a bayonet charge-a rare expedient for firepower-conscious U.S. soldiers. Pressing on, the 24th had a hard tussle before Carigara. It took the town after four days, when the Japs suddenly pulled...
...Lord Lyell, 30, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valor in North Africa last year. Lord Lyell lived as a Scottish laird, died in a bayonet grapple inside a German gun pit. He was the first peer to win Britain's highest award in World War II, the fifth ever...
...Palau. On the ground, where Japs dig in and wait to be rooted out with grenade and bayonet, no such overwhelming combat superiority is possible. Yet more than 10,000 Japs had been killed on Peleliu and Angaur in the southern Palaus. (By last weekend seven other nearby small islands had been occupied, including Ngesebus and Kongauru.) Resistance simmered down to one small pocket on Angaur and "Bloody Nose" Ridge on Peleliu...
Tripartition. Two facts stuck out of this formula with bayonet sharpness: 1) the plan amounted to a partition of Germany-and the political and economic consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...