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...Jap grenade is different from ours. To arm it, they pull a pin but then they have to strike the grenade on something solid a couple of times to set off the fuse. They usually knock it on their helmets or rifle butts. They got so close to us at times, we could hear them pull the pin, bang the damn things on their helmets 'klunk-klunk'; and then 'WHAM...
Toward Rabaul. The strain that night-the darkness, the tense waiting, the ban on talk, the weird jungle sounds-made the toughest leathernecks say they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized it was not a Jap...
This kind of fighting wrenched the jungle from the Jap, slowly enlarged the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Now, after six weeks of fighting, it runs roughly 10,000 yards along the shore, 8,000 yards inland. Last week came the announcement that U.S. engineers had completed a runway within the beachhead. The Allied command could now count on better fighter cover for air and sea attacks on Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific strongpoint...
...Hornets Sting. Before noon the planes had returned to their carriers. The task forces raced to get out of Jap range. On guard above them were their own combat planes. But the hornet's nest stirred furiously. Aboard one of the U.S. carriers was A.P.'s Eugene Burns. He reported...
...sinking our squawkbox sounded: 'Jap snooper is closing.' One cruiser opened fire with two destroyers joining. ... At 9:50 p.m. the squawkbox said: 'A group of planes is closing. They are dropping float lights. Another group is off our starboard bow, now closing...