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...cover as grenades burst a jew paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there was an especially sharp burst, and a visiting correspondent who had landed late and could not understand why we were nervous beat us to the bottom of our foxhole. When the firing finally died...
Then Congress and Franklin Roosevelt put the Philippine Constitution in suspended animation, decreed that Manuel Quezon should continue as Philippine President until the Jap is driven from the Islands. Sergio Osmeña will continue as Vice President...
...bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the "Bougainville Express." Last week the Express was running again-but it was a U.S. Express and it ran the other way. Toward the end of the week the Japanese began coming out to meet the Express. The results were rough...
...came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...
...their anticipation and their ignorance, taking very lightly (in a fine, honest scene) the reading-aloud of the rather pompous order which first tells them where they are going. These shipboard scenes and those in which the Marines land, find no enemy, and only slowly begin to learn about Jap snipers, are among the most real in the picture...