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...Correspondent Francis McCarthy's warning reflected the mood and condition of everyone on Guadalcanal, fighting men and correspondents alike. The 31-year-old, Manila-born U.P. man had survived several attacks of dysentery, a half dozen assorted tropical complaints, a broken rib. But a final threeday, all-out Jap assault did him in. He was removed to safety, together with most of the remaining Guadalcanal correspondents and the cameraman...
Miller and Tregaskis stuck it out longer (six weeks) than most of the correspondents. They went into action several times wearing green marine uniforms, packing 453. When they discovered that they were on the Jap snipers' preferred list they discarded their green and white "C" arm bands. Acme Pictures' Sherman Montrose was with them, and many of the Guadalcanal pictures were the product of his work and risks. (He probably provoked the veteran marine sergeant who said: "If I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it. But I'm not going...
...world has become a nightmare of bombs and shells. It is incredible. It is almost beyond belief that we are still here, still alive, still waiting and still ready. We cannot write in this madness, but we keep notes with shaking hands. . . I trade a Jap helmet for two quarts of grain alcohol. I've got war nerves again...
...Jap battleships shell us with 14-inch shells and everything else. Eight of us huddle in the shelter, sweating and praying. The worst experience I've ever been through in my life. ... It goes on for hour after hour. I begin trembling. It is uncontrollable. Francis McCarthy and I clutch each other's hands for mutual comfort...
...goes on. One of the men in the shelter sobs and sobs and we cannot help him. Another correspondent buries his face in his hands and sits that way hour after hour. At dawn, when we come out of the ground, filthy and shaken to the heart, five Jap Zeros come over the airfield and start skywriting above us. ... The troops stand gazing up. What are they doing...