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...wiped out, he rolled back & forth over the ground, firing first one gun, then the other, kept them chattering through the long night. When the guns got too hot, he used his pistol. When the ammunition got low, he went back through enemy fire for more. When the Japs gave it up, there were 38 dead in front of just one of John Basilone's emplacements. He and his handful of survivors had virtually annihilated a Jap regiment, had helped save Henderson Field...
Tokyo Bonfire. The great planes took off about sunset. At Tokyo there were few enemy night fighters in the air, and the antiaircraft fire was set for 20,000 to 30,000 feet. This time, the B-29s foxed the Jap gunners and came in between 5,000 and 7,000. Visibility was good; the wind was moderate...
...Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting the Japs into three pockets, one of which was soon eliminated. As this week began, it was time for formal announcement that the Pacific's nastiest exterminating job was done...
...brave beloved of these minor lyrics is a dead Jap. The song, Chichi Yo Anata Wa Tsuyokatta (Father, You Were Brave), is a sample from a book of songs which the Japs hopefully scattered through the Philippines. Most of the music is plaintive. Most of the lyrics glorify the fanatical beauties of death in battle...
Last week Captain Earl J. Wilson, U.S.M.C. Aviation Correspondent, reported that this particular Jap effort at propaganda-with-music had been a spectacular flop. For one thing, Filipinos have grown used to the buoyant lyrics and 4/4 rhythms of Tin Pan Alley...