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...flaming furnace of a crashed B-25 at a China base came the agonized screams of a dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...
Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo...
...snipers, shooting Japs from the third floor of a ruined Manila building, decided to ration their occasional targets. The riflemen lined up by rank, and each man had three shots. If a gunner missed, he lost his next turn. Then an impatient sergeant, losing all restraint, fired an entire Browning automatic rifle clip of 20 shots at one Jap. His outraged mates passed sentence: no shooting at all for three days...
...cold so I'm putting him in my heated muff. He's pretty drowsy. 1325 hours; 25,000 feet: mouse unconscious. Fleas show activity. Target bombed. 1510 hours; 20,000 feet: mouse stirring. 1600 hours; 10,000 feet: mouse running around radio room. 1630 hours; altitude zero: gunner just salvoed mouse out of plane. When last seen mouse and fleas were doing okay...
...cops winced. The record showed that Lodzinski and Davidowicz had grown up in Detroit as healthy, law-abiding kids. They were friends in high school, left town together in 1941 to join the Marines. They were months on Guadalcanal, Lodzinski as truck driver, Davidowicz as machine gunner...