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...Navymen were prepared to agree that it was for "the good of the service." Many argued that no amount of zigzagging would have saved the Indianapolis. Said a U.S. submarine commander: "The Jap had a dream dropped in his lap. It's just sheer bad luck for McVay...
...Brown, canyon-mouthed cine-comic, followed Charles A. Lindbergh (TIME, Dec. 10) into the spotlight as a civilian Jap-shooter. In direct violation of the Hague Convention, U.S.O. Trouper Brown, whose son was killed in the war, rode a tank last summer in the attack on Bamban in northern Luzon, popped out with a carbine, blazed away, was credited with killing two Japs...
Captain John P. Cady, U.S.N., had already protested the Jap's admission to the courtroom, protested "calling one of the officers of a defeated enemy who, as a nation, have proved guilty of every despicable treachery ... to testify against one of our commanding officers. . . ." Cady had fought against "any such grotesque [and unprecedented] proceedings." The court had overruled him. Now Cady rose again, demanding: "Does he know the meaning of truth and falsehood...
...Guam, Jap stragglers, who had hidden out for 16 months, ambushed four U.S. marines who had gone out to investigate reports of gunfire in the jungle. Despite serious wounds, one of the four managed to get away, crawled to a native village...
Fifth Columnists. Inevitably, some of the displaced Japanese had gone underground. Into a Shanghai restaurant came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...