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...have been in action tell plenty of stories about the Japanese-how across the barbed wire in the forward positions the Nip dead are piled high. The stench is terrific. The Japs have been removing their dead by night and taking them by truckloads down to Manila...
...flared up like a gasoline-soaked rag, plunged earthwards, crashed in its own bombs. The two other dive-bombers jettisoned their loads and streaked away. One of them was smoking when he turned. The P-40 on his tail gave it to him again and finished him. The third Nip was overhauled on the other side of the hill. He didn't get home either...
...night, along all the fronts, the battle went on. The Jap came upon his own parties, fired on them by mistake. Probably U.S. defenders did too, but more rarely because the Nip had the initiative, had to keep moving. On the northern front pious Filipino troops identified themselves at night by shouting "Adios Ko" (God be with you). The Jap caught on and echoed the password, but his accent was wrong and his shout brought destruction from Filipino rifles...
...gift was duly appreciated. A few days after the Jap came to Luzon, Chief Tomas picked up three Nip pilots forced down in his territory, trussed them like pigs, delivered them to his Yankee friends. This week Tomas decided the time had come for a more decisive step. With a sling of poisoned arrows over his shoulder, an ancient cartridge belt around his middle and a gleaming bolo in his hand, he looked up the U.S. Army. Drawing himself up to his full height (4 ft.), he announced that the Balugas had unanimously voted to help the U.S. defeat Japan...
...four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk a Nip...