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...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, home on leave from his South Pacific command: "The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months. The only thing to do is kill all of them...
...Britain. General MacArthur's men (Marine veterans of Guadalcanal) had won their objective on New Britain's western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary...
Scrambling ashore with the Marines on bloody Cape Torokina, a magnetic wire recorder (TIME, May 17) strapped to his back, Sergeant Maypole made the first recording of a U.S. landing on Jap-held shores. It will be heard by radio listeners when & if the Marines release it. From Marine Headquarters' accounts, the recording was of good quality, and the Sergeant acquitted himself well...
First Gravedigger. Once ashore, he found an idle generator close to the uncertain fighting, hooked on and recorded what he saw. The recorder, with its magnetized spool of wire, survived the blast of a Jap bomb ten yards away. Then, being a Marine before he was a correspondent, Maypole went to work digging graves. He dug them all day. Next morning he recorded interviews with weary Marines resting from a night's fighting in the bush...
...Jap had been pushed out of eyeshot, and Maypole went after him. Someone told him to follow a wire to the forward command post's generator. He hounded it through the stinking jungle, over dead trees, dead Japs, swampland, until alone Marine popped his head out from behind a log and hollered...