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...Japs poured toward them. The gunners picked up Jap rifles and ammunition and turned them into the enemy. When the order came for the artillery to withdraw they sent this answer back: "Sir, we would prefer to stay and fight...
...Story. This afternoon I went down the hill into the cane fields after the tanks and infantry. Along the west side of a little toy railroad there were dead Japanese every few feet. Some of them were blasted beyond recognition. Under a little farmhouse there were six Jap soldiers, all with their right hands missing, their chests blasted. The old story - suicide by hand grenade...
Cracked Burke: "We should refuel at Rabaul [the big Jap base], but I doubt if the fuel line connections would...
...time Burke had moved on, the Little Beavers had sunk eleven Jap ships, damaged 20 more. They had lost none of their cans, had suffered little damage, almost no casualties. They had also written a new Navy book of tactics...
...platoon sergeant, he put his men first, himself last. But in battle he was not self-effacing. One night in October 1942, he bore the heavy brunt of a Jap attempt to retake Henderson Field. When the 19 men in his section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...