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Jungle Trouble. To inspire the 32nd, Eichelberger's method was to get up on the front himself-and his officers went with him, where riflemen could see them. Three brigadiers were wounded but Eichelberger, who insisted on wearing his general's stars within sight of the Japanese ("What's the use of being up here if the boys can't see who I am?'') came through without a scratch...
...night they made Marine history, Carter and Harrell were riflemen of Company A of the 5th Division's 28th Marines-the regiment that planted the flags on Mt. Suribachi. It was March 2, long after Suribachi had been secured, and the 28th had moved into the line along the steep ravines of northern...
Toward Victory. A great gap had been torn in the Jap blockade. Supplies, flowing up the Ledo-Burma Road, were revitalizing Chungking's ragged riflemen. Not even the Jap capture of Laohokow and its U.S. air base (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) could hide the overall fact that China's armed strength was increasing...
...snipers, shooting Japs from the third floor of a ruined Manila building, decided to ration their occasional targets. The riflemen lined up by rank, and each man had three shots. If a gunner missed, he lost his next turn. Then an impatient sergeant, losing all restraint, fired an entire Browning automatic rifle clip of 20 shots at one Jap. His outraged mates passed sentence: no shooting at all for three days...
Tommies in tanks had recaptured the ruins of the Averoff prison which ELAS had used as a fort. After it fell, resistance collapsed. With all but a third of the capital recaptured, reinforced British troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by winding paths over the hills and melted away into the countryside. Into the streets, behind them, marched British troops and Greek Government Militia, pelted by flowers from shattered windows. Said a perplexed Tommy: "Blimey, I'll never get the hang of these people. First flowers, then bombs, then flowers...