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Japanese cruelty had been mainly in deprivation and threats. Jap rationing gave every five persons a half-pound of sugar a week, each person two pounds of rice every ten days...
Such gullibility was traced farther back by John Morris in Traveler from Tokyo (Sheridan House; $2.75), Morris, an Englishman once attached to the Japanese Foreign Office as an adviser, wrote that Jap newspapers calmly assert that the airplane is a Japanese invention, that Jesus Christ was born in the north of Japan...
Mmmmm! In New Guinea, a captured Jap sheepishly explained that the aroma from the G.I. bakery had been so tantalizing that he had just had to surrender...
...mottled figure: a brown and black Doberman pinscher with ears acock. Now and again the dog stopped; the Marine hand-signaled to it and the dog moved on. Then suddenly the Doberman stiffened. The Marine raised his rifle and the valley echoed with shots. From a tree ahead a Jap sniper tumbled and lay still...
Some are trained as messengers, taught to trust only two handlers. They will carry messages from one of these men to the other over all kinds of terrain, against all kinds of odds, avoiding anyone else, attacking anyone, Jap or American, who tries to stop them. On a test through heavy jungle one dog covered 1,600 yds. in four-and-a-half minutes. It took a Marine runner eleven minutes to cover the same ground. If necessary a dog can carry 150 rounds of ammunition in a saddle pack...