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...Surprise. For a moment we thought we had surprised the Japanese. Then suddenly heavy machine guns began to scratch the heavens with fire. We were hedgehopping, coming directly out of the moonlight. Every Japanese machine gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low. The tracers' red, blazing prongs of light flashed by our windows. I was up in the nose with the squadron bombardier, Lieut. George Stout, and it seemed as if we were darting through a corridor of flaming sheaves...
From the Naval Hospital in San Diego came an unforgettable story of valor on a bloody night on jungled Guadalcanal. On an iron hospital cot lay Marine Private Albert A. Schmid, 23, husky son of a Philadelphia brewery worker, who, on a moonlight night last August, manned a machine gun that almost singlehandedly cut off an enemy advance...
...dromedary's side: "I never thought I'd end up in a camel's snood." The chinny comedian also does a female impersonation. Crosby, who marks his tenth movie anniversary with this film, celebrates the occasion by being in customary good voice. Best Numbers: Moonlight Becomes You, Constantly. Dorothy Lamour will probably pick up a few more votes as the Army's favorite pin-up girl...
...empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his retreat. Near by, the moonlight made a complicated and shadowy apparition out of a wrecked Mark III tank, glinted on a German chocolate tin and a bloodied German helmet...
...Attack. Friday evening, three hours before the Eighth Army was to move, Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery met his key ground and air commanders at the steps of his headquarters-on-wheels. His sunburned face glistened with sweat in the moonlight. Said he: "We have one plan, one idea in mind. There is no army on one hand and air force on the other. We work as a unit." His Australian...