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...smallest man in his class. He had a long Milquetoast nose, soft reddish hair, one constantly surprised eyebrow, and a solid reputation for whimsical understatement. Inevitably, he was called "The Brute." Last week, as a lieutenant colonel of the Marines, back from a brush with the Japs on Choiseul Island, The Brute was in line for a Navy Cross. His Marine paratroopers had harried and jabbed the Jap for a week, killed at least 144, wounded uncounted others...
...Choiseul at night, 18 hours after the Treasury Islands attack began. There were about 2,000 of them, and their heaviest weapons were 60-mm. mortars, but their job was to make a noise like a couple of divisions, to divert attention from the Bougainville landings. They succeeded: the Jap radio reported 20,000 Allied troops on Choiseul...
Down on the Jap garrison at Sangagai swooped two Marine detachments. One party, moving along the beach, struck the Japs just at mealtime (2 p.m.-the Japs did not observe daylight saving.) Said The Brute: "The Nips immediately scampered into the mountains and met head on with our [other] force coming down. They put up a very nice fight but made the mistake of trying one of those banzai charges . . . our machine guns just chopped them to pieces. One of our men lost the tripod of his machine gun. He picked it up like one of those Victor McLaglen movies...
...Bougainville, Krulak's raiders slipped up the coast and attacked the supply and fueling area. "All burned briskly," reported Krulak happily. The Brute thought the Jap marines better fighters than the soldiers encountered in the fueling area. But all of them, said he, are "really very easy to kill . . . they have a bit of a fetish about charging that gets them into trouble. A man who goes directly into machine-gun fire generally loses his social security...
...When the Japs pushed out vigorous counter patrols, the Marines chose the trees that would be most tempting to Jap snipers. In the bark, the Marines stuck razor blades. As anticipated, the moment the Japs hit, the sniper squads started up the trees. Then they began dropping "in most outraged surprise." While still staring at their hands, they were picked...