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...them is a piece of hollow bamboo filled with a dynamite stick, which they catapult over the trees. The red-necks call them 'Casey's cookie.' Another is a small, two-wheeled, self-propelled tank, with armored plating up front to protect the machine-gunner. The engineers say it will get where a tank won't, and they call it 'Casey's chariot...
...except the front-line areas, the worst nuisance and the most pregnant occasion for levity were intermittent bombings by the Jap. "Keep 'em falling" became the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan. Melville Jacoby. TIME correspondent on Corregidor, reported that the Jap was losing one out of every seven planes to fire from the ground...
Sirs: TIME, Dec. 8: "Everything was ready. From Rangoon to Honolulu, every man was at battle station. . . ." TIME evidently "erred" in this article and the writer trusts that you will retract this statement in an early issue. . . . ALLISON F. KELSEY Gunner, U.S. Navy, 1918 Montclair...
Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...
From the sandy shore and the swamp beyond, artillery flamed. A U.S. gunner named Johnny Jones plunked two 75-mm. shells into a transport at the water line. It sank. Other transports were sunk by artillerymen working under fire from Jap destroyers and a cruiser or two. Barges loaded with Jap soldiers were battered into bloody, waterlogged messes. But farther up the shore the Japs got ashore and moved down, attacking the defenders as more invaders landed behind them...