Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Platoon Sergeant Charles Henry Smith, U.S.M.C., can go back to civilian life any time he wants. He has 232 points, three campaign ribbons with 17 Pacific battle stars and a chestful of decorations, including the Navy Cross. He also carries 39 pieces of shrapnel, a Jap bullet in his shoulder and another in his spine. But this week, as the Marine Corps celebrated its 170th birthday, indestructible, 27-year-old Sergeant Smith was glad to tell reporters that he was not going to be a civilian. He is a professional marine...
...that Sunday morning his wife was killed on Ford Island by a Jap aerial gunner...
...Raiders. He stormed ashore with them on Makin Island, killed one Jap with his rifle butt in hand-to-hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...
...went home after that for a breather, met and married pretty, 21-year-old Ada North. But he was soon back in the South Pacific, fighting in Abemama and Majuro, and in the Marshall Islands, where he was wounded by a Jap hand grenade...
...Marshalls one night, Marine Smith found himself with two comrades in a foxhole within earshot of the enemy. In Japanese, he invited confused Jap soldiers to join him. One after another, four of them crawled over; Smith quietly bayoneted them to death. Smith's friends left for another foxhole. Said he: "I guess they thought I was crazy...