Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where there is a long plateau on which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were working with ropes to pick up the bodies of two of our men, killed the previous day. I asked one of them about the stories I had heard...
...Most Routine Way." "You wouldn't believe it unless you saw it," he said. "Yesterday and the day before there were hundreds of Jap civilians-men, women, and children-up here on this cliff. In the most routine way, they would jump off the cliff, or climb down and wade into the sea. I saw a father throw his three children off, and then jump down himself. Those coral pockets down there under the cliff are full of Jap suicides...
...Enforcer. Apparently the Jap soldier not only would go to any extreme to avoid surrender, but would also try to see that no civilian surrendered. At Marpi Point, the marines had tried to dislodge a Jap sniper from a cave in the cliff. For a Jap, he was an exceptional marksman; he had killed two marines (one at 700 yds.) and wounded a third. The marines used rifles, torpedoes and, finally, TNT in a 45-minute effort to force him out. Meantime the Jap had other business...
...newcomers is a nucleus from last term's squad, including Captain Mark Tuttle. crack miler from the NROTC, V-12cr Earl Swett, who runs the two-mile distance, civilians Glenn Schultz and Frank Cawley, both of whom do the 440, V-12cr Jack Noble, a half-miler, and versatile Cliff Wharton, who handles the broad jump, high jump...
...there and find out whether I am lying," I said. In fact, Tito was in his grotto when the German paratroops descended on Drvar. His men pulled him up a rope to the summit of the steep cliff while the shooting was going on in the valley. He then walked over to a nearby hill, and from there directed the battle. That day and night his entire staff and all the files and papers were evacuated in the same manner, and when on the following day the Germans finally broke into the cave they found it empty...