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...sergeant talked quietly and matter-of-factly. "Truman was behind his machine gun when the Jap artillery got him. A guy came over and gave me the word just a few minutes later. I went up to see him. He was dead when I got there. They told me he died instantly. We buried him . . . there on Corregidor...
...gunner on the Mississippi told him: "Chaplain, back in Pearl, I had a hard time behavin'. Up here with them Jap subs somewhere around, it ain't no trouble at all. I'm afraid I'll grow wings." Chaplain Sheehy replied: "We have been 62 days at sea, and we are now drawing on the ship's reserve supplies. Each man has a reserve tank of virtue in him-and the fact of danger may make him tap it. Don't rely upon it for long. It soon runs dry . . . -"There is a spark...
...phrase, "lead lives of quiet desperation." He decides he has never been his own man. His values have come f.o.b. Detroit, New York, Hollywood. Instead of the surges of the heart, he has lived by the slogans of the hucksters. One night a confused sentry mistakes him for a Jap, sends him to meet the man-sized death he secretly yearns...
...German operators received the XXI more than a year too late. We did not need that type submarine against the tired Jap. In my considered opinion, if Jap air and escort-borne radar had punished our subs at the rate ours did the Germans, our designers would have produced a snorkel and other necessary equipment in less time than did the Germans...
...which whipped the Jap air defense to its knees and then walked in and dropped an atomic bomb, now finds itself in the same position. It cannot stop an enemy bomber coming in at high altitude." This alarming statement came last week from an arms expert working for the Defense Department's top-level Research and Development Board. He is one of a group of arms men who spent months examining combat reports from Korea and evaluation tests at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors...