Word: emirau
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...over the next four years, Bauer had 24 malarial attacks), he fought on New Georgia, was hit in the back by shrapnel on Guam. (Years later in New York, Yankee Relief Pitcher Joe Page delighted in picking small pieces of debris out of Bauer's back.) Next came Emirau off New Guinea, then Okinawa. Sixty-four men were in Platoon Sergeant Bauer's landing group on Okinawa; six got out alive. Hank himself was wounded again. "I saw this reflection of sunshine on something coming down. It was an artillery shell, and it hit right behind...
...their excitement, the men in the little motorboat could hardly tumble out a coherent story to the port authorities at Kavieng, New Guinea. They had crossed the 85 miles from Emirau Island, they said, to get help for some 500 prisoners of war, marooned there by German sea raiders. Help was needed quickly. Some of the castaways were badly torn by shrapnel and steel splinters. Seventy women and children were nearly exhausted. All of them were dirt-encrusted, hollow-eyed, half-starved...
...prisoners' comments for propaganda uses. A microphone was hidden in the women's prison to pick up stray bits of information. Officers pumped them for details on sailing dates and destinations. When a diminishing food supply forced the Germans to land some of the prisoners at Emirau, the men were ordered to sign a declaration pledging themselves to noncombatancy for the rest of the war. Those who refused were kept on the prison ship, along with the crews of three other vessels...
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