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...South Pacific island, playing ball for a ist Marine Division regimental team, Pfc. George E. Benson Jr. lifted a high foul out past third base. A Stinson grasshopper artillery spotting plane was coming in to land. The ball crashed through the windshield, broke the pilot's jaw and knocked him unconscious...
...produced a touchdown. The 77th now held the vital position on the west coast of Leyte; the position could serve as an anvil while other U.S. divisions, like hammers, pounded the Japs caught between. To the northeast were the hammers of the ist Cavalry Division (dismounted) and the 32nd Division; to the southeast was the hammer...
...week heard a marine's-eye view of the fight for Peleliu. The narrator was shy, wry Sergeant Alvin Flanagan, Ma rine combat correspondent and ex-WOR (Manhattan) announcer. Microphone in hand, FM-walkie-talkie strapped to his back, Flanagan landed on the beach at Peleliu with the ist Marine Division, describing the scene as he went. His account went to an associate aboard a Marine transport offshore, where it was recorded for last week's broadcast...
...hell on Palau for his ist Regiment-as hot a hell as Chesty has ever stepped into. Some 60% of his unit were casualties...
With her two children Aimee then began a long pilgrimage through the U.S. to preach her own brand of fundamental ist salvation, which she called the Four-square Gospel. On street corners and under canvas she preached, from Maine to Florida and from coast to coast. Tired of wandering at last, in 1918 she loaded her mother and her children into a broken-down jalopy and headed for Los Angeles...