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...Marine captain, flying his lonely Wildcat in the forbidding and ugly Solomons when he was shot down by Japs. He's been "missing in action" since a year ago last Jan. 2. Let those four self-righteous souls sit at home night after night with a son missing as ours has been missing, knowing not what might have been his gruesome fate, before they condemn us who would outlaw every Jap, no matter what his nativity...
...years that are left to me, I shall loathe every Jap. And with Halsey and Patton and all the rest, including the farmers of New Jersey, who have the courage to speak out and act, I shall want them scourged from this our blessed America, which is my native land, too. Only a dead Jap can be trusted...
Biak has three airfields. It is less than 900 miles from Davao on the southern tip of the Philippines, about 500 miles from Palau, the Jap naval base in the western Carolines...
...93rd learned fast. They were resourceful. Corporal Lemon Hicks of Silver City, Miss, and four buddies got lost behind enemy lines. When they blundered into a command post they picked off one Jap, melted back into the thick and steaming underbrush. They ran into a Jap minefield and methodically picked their way through it. They located their own lines by the sound of distant artillery, finally crossed safely back. Said Lemon: "All of us prayed...
With Flame. Their artillerymen learned to "walk" shells toward distant objectives. Their fire was so accurate that Jap prisoners thought U.S. troops had installed listening posts deep in the jungles to tip off Japanese movements...