Word: bayonetting
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...gobbled up most of the Huon Peninsula. In twelve days he enveloped and captured Lae. Six days later he swept around Finschhaven, 70 miles beyond Lae on the Huon Gulf. His airborne Australians attacked inland. His seaborne Australians landed on the coast above Finschhaven, with mortar fire and bayonet established a bridgehead and seized Finschhaven airport. At week's end the fall of Finschhaven itself was imminent, and the Japs were reduced to a few last toe holds in eastern New Guinea...
Another voice chimed in: "Everyone's getting battle-wacky. One private who never saw a mine in his life before went around picking fuses out of mines. He dug up 37 of them with his bayonet and then marked them with toilet paper. No normal guy would do that." "The radio two nights ago said Troina had been captured," a lieutenant said. "We must have taken Troina; our broadcasters never lie." By now it was dark and we prepared for our nightly attack on Troina. On the opposite side of the road at the other end of the culvert...
High spot of the film is the result of a party at which a U.S. newspaperwoman suggests that to amuse the guests Taro should have his men bayonet a baby or two. Insulted, Taro picks a quarrel with his old U.S. friend O'Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
...soldiers one by one. On Attu last month Joe Mendoza came upon an unarmed Jap cowering behind a rock. Joe started to shoot, but his sense of fair play got the better of him. Throwing down his rifle, he whipped out a knife. Then he tossed the Jap a bayonet and beckoned him to come on. This act of gallantry frightened the Jap more than the prospect of death itself; he ran. Joe Mendoza, conscience free, shot...