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...still paying heavily for his conquest of the Philippines. A crack regiment of Japanese regulars, harassing the defenders' left flank, lost out after a week of savage fighting to U.S. troops and Filipino scouts. The thinning line was still holding...
...Four Filipino chaplains (three Roman Catholic, one Anglican) are now missing in action...
Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...
...reconnaissance patrols Captain Wermuth, from a foxhole, spotted a long line of Japanese crossing a ridge. "I worked them over with my tommy gun," said he, "and got at least 30 like ducks in a Coney Island shooting gallery." Attracted by the shooting, five Filipino scouts rushed to the scene, helped Arthur Wermuth polish off "50 or 60" more of the enemy party...
...American and Filipino chaplains, both Protestant and Catholic, are working among the troops night and day, staying at the firing lines and not just visiting them. Of nearly 30 American chaplains, every one has been near falling bombs or whizzing bullets or found what it means when the enemy has continual air superiority. Many is the chaplain, dodging dive-bombers, who has gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers. Chaplains are doing everything, from holding services in the jungles right behind the lines to helping men make out wills, insurance and writing letters, from hearing confessions...