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...Manila street a Jap soldier held a 15-year-old girl's head up by pulling at her hair, hacked at her neck with a sword as she prayed for mercy...
Order in the Court. As the testimony wore on, formality lent the proceedings the curious improbability of a bad horror play. But twice there were real and savage scenes. A Chinese woman, who had seen her baby bayoneted, stared at Yamashita from the stand, cried: "That Jap is to blame. He's got to be killed to pay for what he's done!" A slim Filipino girl halted her testimony, cried in a low, tense voice: "You still have the face to look at me, Yamashita. If I could only get near you. You ought...
...named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero had to be viewed in exceedingly unheroic surroundings...
...message alerted Jap forces to be ready to go to war when they received a weather report with the words "East Wind, Rain ; East Wind, Rain." Then that very weather report, so the story goes, was intercepted by the U.S. on Dec. 4. But, as best as can now be learned, all the files which would show such intercepted messages are missing...
...baby-faced Robert F. ("Duke") Hedman, who had shot down six Japs, and had flown the Hump 350 times, had an unemployed $10,000. Joe Rosbert (six Jap planes), who once crashed in the Himalayas and walked out in 46 days, threw in $10,000, took a job as chief pilot. J.R. ("Dick") Rossi, also a six-plane man, got his letter in India after his 600th Hump crossing. Wrote Prescott: "Rossi, put that drink in your left hand and tell me what you're doing." Rossi joined...