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Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It takes guts...
Several weeks before Tunisia fell to the Allies, Reporter Pyle went into battle with the infantry. He was shelled, bombed, strafed, machine-gunned. Once he had, for a whole day, the sole attention of a German sniper. In one day's fighting, he wrote, thousands of shells passed over his position, and one German dud bounced so close he could have fielded it like a hot grounder. He returned to the rear a little greyer, slept almost continuously for three days, then sat down to write a fistful of columns. Examples of his stuff...
...Kansas Representative William P. Lambertson on a theme that engrosses him: that President Roosevelt's four sons (James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John) are getting preferential treatment in the armed services, have been coddled and "jerked" from combat zones. Republican leaders tried in vain to silence the Kansas sniper. Last week Democrats made a crushing answer...
...myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers. They say that Japanese, snipers are an annoyance, little more. They hide excellently but their aim is poor. Sniping serves, however, to frighten men who will not deliberately ignore it. Japanese machine-gunners often set up their guns in a fixed position, and do not traverse and search. The result is that men in the line of Japs' fire can move aside and advance safely...
...calls this expedition into a sniper-infested valley "just an episode in an insignificant battle" (the Marines won the battle, though not this particular skirmish). It "illustrated how war feels to men everywhere. The terrain, the weapons and the races of war vary, but certainly never the sensations . .. for they are as universal as those of love...