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...news of Jap treatment of our boys was no news to us. ... I could have thought up better propaganda for bond sales...
...rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...
This kind of spiritual guerrilla warfare has been solemnly credited with helping last summer's Jap evacuation of Kiska, in the Aleutians, after U.S. forces had mopped up the garrison on nearby Attu. A copy of the Government-owned Japan Times and Advertiser cited four "miraculous'' incidents...
...July 26, Jap radio detector instruments on Kiska picked up "two masses of steel" approaching from east and west. In the thick northern fog a terrific cannonading broke out, then the masses of steel moved away. Later a Jap evacuation fleet entered the harbor unscathed. "Thus the soldiers from Kiska believe that the souls of the deified heroes of Attu had lured the enemy over the sea and made them fight each other by tampering with their wireless instruments...
Only malevolent Jap spirit yet reported by U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater: captured sake...