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...Hard Way. The terrain, made to order for defense, is the second reason. On Iwo the Japs dug themselves in so deeply that all the explosives in the world could hardly have reached them. Each hillside, every gully has its carefully camouflaged caves. One in the 4th Division area is estimated to be 800 yards long, with 14 entrances. Each cave entrance is protected by many pillboxes which can be spotted only at closest range. Around one entrance to a 200-yd. cave, I counted seven pillboxes which had housed machine guns covering every conceivable approach. Our chances of defilading...
...filled with possibilities where it had held only menace before. Because the women looked to him confidently, expecting him to save them in each crisis of attack or hunger, he was driven to superhuman feats of courage and ingenuity. To make a home, he drove a bear from a cave in the cliffs. He killed a mammoth caught in a pit by building a fire around...
...fire also proved his undoing. The fleet, supple, Cro-Magnons-6 ft. tall, weighing 250 Ibs., hunting with arrows and lances, wearing clothing to protect them in winter and painting pictures on their cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...
...method of extracting the Japs was a series of inshore patrols by a landing craft. As marines inland prodded every tussock, probed every cave, the LCI cruised close to the cliffs, while a language officer at a loudspeaker urged the Japs to come on down and give up. Among his persuasions: good food, clean beds, plenty of bathing, the chance of honorable surrender. Some of the Japs were persuaded. Many others, still convinced that there was no such thing as honorable surrender, were...
...Marines finally had every cave on the ridge covered. They waited. When the Gopher popped out this time, a Marine marksman got him-through the head...