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...Spot. In Palau, Hospital Apprentice ist Class Albert O. Seagle stood at his post, felt a Jap bullet strike his leg, fell on an operating table, received treatment. Elapsed time: 3 seconds...
Finding myself yet alive in the morning I surveyed my surroundings (as I had not been able to do when digging a foxhole was the most important thing on earth). In a shellhole ten yards away there were eight dead marines. On the other side were two unexploded Jap mines...
...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...
Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes), was newspictured in the snows at Sequoia National Park, Calif., where he and his bride of three weeks are honeymooning...
...Jap casualties (counted dead) have now reached the total of 3,568. Nine Jap prisoners were taken. Our casualties in the first three days were 644 killed, 4,168 wounded...