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...used his pistol. When the ammunition got low, he went back through enemy fire for more. When the Japs gave it up, there were 38 dead in front of just one of John Basilone's emplacements. He and his handful of survivors had virtually annihilated a Jap regiment, had helped save Henderson Field...
When the first waves of marines went ashore on Iwo Jima, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was there, commanding an assault team of the 27th Regiment, 5th Division. By noon Medal-of-Honorman Basilone had his outfit on the edge of Motoyama airfield. There he met the shell that had his number on it. By nightfall John Basilone, a good marine, was dead...
FACES IN A DUSTY PICTURE-Gerald Kersh-Whittlesey House ($2). Portraits of several members of a British regiment as they meet the enemy in North Africa. Plenty of good cursing, bad writing, and genuine emotion...
Some Marines Wept. The 28th Regiment (part of the sth Division) of tall, gaunt Colonel Harry ("The Horse") Liver-sedge, ex-Raider, took Suribachi Volcano on D-plus-four. When the U.S. flag was raised over this highest point on the island, some marines wept openly...
...attack on Corregidor came literally out of the blue. One half of the 503rd Parachute Regiment boarded its planes on Mindoro Island. As their transports sailed over the ½-sq.-mi. head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...