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...When we hit Peleliu's sandy beaches we wondered if another Tarawa was developing," Martin cabled. "The Japs knew we were coming and threw everything in the book at us in a desperate effort to stave off annihilation. Two Jap shells made near misses on our amphtrack, pelted its sides with shrapnel. When we reached the beach another mortar a few yards distant spouted bloodily against the smoky island background, killed one Marine, wounded two others. We had to dig for cover in a ditch because our front lines were only 25 yards inland...
...Since Sept. 6 when I left Mitscher's flagship, I have watched the Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting...
...weeks ago, a Jap invasion fleet from Formosa nosed up to the mouth of the Min, downstream from Foochow (see map). Assault troops swarmed ashore and drove swiftly to the suburbs of the port, whose garrison had held out in hope of welcoming an Allied invasion force. Last week a second landing was made on the south bank of the Min, catching Foochow between the two Jap columns...
...fretted in his command post-a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret, surveyed the field before him with hard, bloodshot eyes. For many days his regiment had been fighting it out in this sector against Jap troops dug into the limestone face of the ridge...
...field telephone buzzed. The colonel listened and growled into it: "We're still going but some of my companies are damned small." A Jap mortar opened up and the men around the colonel flattened out. The C.O. himself did not change his position. He stuck out his chest and spat: "The bastards...