Word: snipering
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This little exchange of amenities did not mean that 27 years of bitter feuding had ended. The air still zinged with individual sniper's bullets, and a real Kremlin-Vatican friendship was as remote as ever -but last week the prospects for some sort of truce had progressed beyond the rumor stage...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
Except for scattered sniper pockets and a hard core of Japs holed up in three government buildings (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Manila was finally free to face the future. General Douglas MacArthur lost no time in turning over the civil administration of the charred city-and of all liberated areas in the Philippines-to the Government of President Sergio Osmeña. In Malacanan Palace this week, MacArthur proclaimed: "You are now a liberated people. . . . On behalf of my Government, I now solemnly declare . . . the full powers under the Constitution are restored to the Commonwealth...
...beach this morning I saw at least 50 men still fighting despite their wounds. Captain William Ketcham, commanding Company I in Vandegrift's battalion, was nicked in the arm and leg by snipers' bullets, but was merely contemptuous of the Japs' aim: "Shot at me twelve times and barely broke the skin with two bullets," said he. This battalion, in its brief periods in the front line, has had more than 100 casualties (mostly wounded). As it prepared to attack again today, Vandegrift cautioned his men: "Sniper fire gets very hot around here-better keep down...
...fought at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, finally landed on Leyte with the 7th Division. On Dec. 30, when a man was needed to cross a valley under fire and scout Japanese positions, Hachiya volunteered. He had worked out ahead of his protecting patrol, when he suddenly staggered with a sniper's bullet in his belly. He emptied his rifle at the enemy, and crawled back to the U. S. lines, gave his scout's report. Soon after, Private Hachiya died...