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...photographers, in the dim station, the heroes brought out their Jap flags and Jap sabers, leaving the pornographic Jap propaganda leaflets packed away in their sea bags...
...Saipan, the suicide of Japanese soldiers in the last days of the battle for the island, was an old story. But there were 20,000 civilians on the island, too, and many of them elected to die for the Emperor, or perhaps to escape a conqueror represented by Jap propaganda as hideously brutal. In this dispatch, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod describes the gruesome deeds, incomprehensible to the occidental mind, which followed the U.S. victory...
...thought we had seen everything in the line of Jap military suicides by the time the last charge of the Japs had been beaten off. But we hadn't. Here was something different. During mopping-up operations a detachment of marines on amphibious tractors saw seven Japanese off-shore on a coral reef and drove out to get them. As the amphtracks approached, six of the Japs knelt down on the reef. Then the seventh, apparently an officer, drew a sword and began methodically to hack at the necks of his men. Four heads had rolled into...
Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, gaunt, hard-bitten leader of Carlson's Marine Raiders, just back from Saipan's front line, where he was drilled in the arm and leg by Jap bullets, was visited at a San Diego hospital by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their eldest son, Colonel James Roosevelt. Said Carlson elsewhere: "I received my first Purple Heart for wounds in action during World War I, in France. If I can just keep them spaced this far apart I'll be all right...
...brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled out of it somehow. When we got to talking to him we found that his attitude was one of complete disgust with Jap marksmanship. He said, 'If that had been a marine he would have shot me right square through the forehead...