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Word: passarelli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Mohl jumped squarely on the first enemy; Corporal Frank Passarelli and Private Tom Boaz tackled the second; Corporal George Ickes stood up and shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Incident on Patrol | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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