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Chickering saw at first hand the savage Bougainville campaign and the terror of jungle war. Then he shifted to the Central Pacific, where he went ashore at Kwajalein and watched the mop-up operations. He saw death all around...
Mike's sister, Margaret, mourned: "He used to be so nice. Now he's just a bunch of nerves and never sits still." Mike, dejectedly running his big hands through his mop of brown hair, said: "Maybe I need a psychiatrist...
MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...
Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
From an artillery outpost on Leyte, Brigadier General Kenneth F. Cramer, deputy commander of the embattled 24th Division, watched the fight. Nearby officers noted that a Jap sniper fired every time the 50-year-old National Guardsman took off his helmet to mop his brow. Warned General Cramer promised to keep his hat on his glistening bald pate hidden...