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...year ago this week, tough, tobacco-chomping Major Gregory Boyington, U.S.M.C. was a happy man. Pale and skinny from Jap prison rations, he sprawled on a bunk aboard the destroyer escort Reeves anchored in Tokyo Bay. Hero Boyington (26 confirmed planes) had just heard that he had won the Congressional Medal of Honor. He had also eaten his first American food in 20 months-eight eggs, two orders of ham, two helpings of mashed potatoes. He patted his stomach, said, "This is okay. I like...
...term and $600 fine for hit-&-run driving. He had been asleep at the wheel, he said, when his car killed a honeymoon couple a month ago. The fine was paid by an exmarine, who said he was doing it because the showman had sent him parcels in a Jap prison camp. White said his own bankroll was only...
Joseph Berry Keenan, Chief Prosecutor of the Tokyo Tribunal, thought Pu-yi might give evidence of Jap crimes in Manchuria. The Russians, who have held Henry incommunicado since last August, produced him only on condition that he remain under Soviet control while in Japan. From Atsugi they took Henry to a modest house next to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, where they would have a chance to help him prepare his evidence...
...sweating and slugging, who wrote the story of the 24th on Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon, Mindanao. For the general reader, the best parts are those in which Valtin is the observer, not the recorder. A G.I. wants a pair of pliers. Why? To salvage gold teeth from a dead Jap. "Use your rifle butt," says a friend...
...village square a tired rifleman sits down to eat a can of K-ration cheese. A fully armed Jap suddenly springs from an adjacent house, starts running away. The rifleman puts down the cheese, picks up his rifle, aims, fires twice. "Missed the bastard," he calls out to Valtin, sitting near by; "don't put my name in that book of yours...