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...fighting was done on mountain peaks a thousand feet or more straight up. Some reporters did not get to take their shoes off for days, and the icy Aleutian winds numbed an ungloved hand so quickly that taking notes outdoors was all but impossible. The wind was worse than Jap bullets whistling overhead. You get used to bullets...
Sherrod was in the front lines with our boys on Buffalo Nose ridge, where one of the bitterest battles of the campaign was fought. He saw U.S. soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...
...only "front line" left in the Southwest Pacific war is in the New Guinea jungle, where small handfuls of garrisoning Allied troops continue a gradual encroachment on Jap outposts. Most advanced of these outposts is the native village of Mubo, which straddles the only practicable land route to Salamaua and Lae. Near by, on Lababia ridge, Allied patrols have established some of the fixed positions gained in weeks of skirmishing...
Mostly they are those who died in the Jap's mad fanatical rush of Saturday and Sunday. Many are horribly mangled by bayonets and rifle butts. Many were obviously shot and killed, then stabbed time after time by the strange little yellow men who then proceeded to die, as violently as possible, sometimes by their own hands...
...Later]: More than 1,000 Jap bodies have been buried in one day, mostly by the troops who had slain them. Men who had killed Japs calmly and efficiently, who had picked up their own dead with tight-lipped calm, vomited as they collected the bodies of the enemy...