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...hysteria and excitement arising from the Jap atrocities report let's not forget our other enemy. I hold no apology for the report. There could be none. But already I have heard people say: "Well the Germans are not that bad." Yes they are just as bad. Let's not forget Warsaw, or Lidice or the massacre of the three million Jews. Can there be anything worse than that...
Others go by pouch on the backs of Naga tribesmen to U.S. soldiers at listening posts close to the Jap lines-posts set up to give a few minutes' warning when Jap bombers start coming over...
...first, the House seemed willing to go along with Vivian. Then three representatives banded together to fight the amendment: one who is blind, a second whose brother is a Jap prisoner, a third who is a Negro. Tall, gangly Dean Paul Roberts of Denver's St. John's Cathedral soberly warned a packed house and gallery: "Fascism starts in an innocent way, with public opinion mobilized against a small group unable to fight back...
...They man Navy guns and they shoot Army rifles. But the toughest job in any military operation lies in that half-&-half area between the troop transport and the dry land of the defended enemy beach. Said a Marine sergeant who waded into Tarawa through the soprano whine of Jap...
...away from you." From Makin soon after the battle had ended, he flew to Tarawa. He walked through little Betio Island's 5,000 enemy and U.S. dead with the 2nd Marine Division's Major General Julian Smith.* A few minutes after they passed a pillbox rubble, Jap snipers killed three marines on the spot they had left...