Word: snipering
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...Enforcer. Apparently the Jap soldier not only would go to any extreme to avoid surrender, but would also try to see that no civilian surrendered. At Marpi Point, the marines had tried to dislodge a Jap sniper from a cave in the cliff. For a Jap, he was an exceptional marksman; he had killed two marines (one at 700 yds.) and wounded a third. The marines used rifles, torpedoes and, finally, TNT in a 45-minute effort to force him out. Meantime the Jap had other business...
...generals admired the belts, tried them on for size. Snorted a two-star general: "Hell of a thing or the field-a sniper could pick out the buckle at 1,000 yards." A brigadier general gloomed: "No good as a shaving strap either-all that stitching." Having received no instructions on what to use the belts for, the generals concluded that somebody in Washington was designing a wardrobe for the march down the Wilhelmstrasse. The belts were tossed in bottom drawers...
...jumped into a cave over there in the rock quarry." Several other marines ran toward the quarry-one of several dozen on Saipan. Caves in the sides of these scooped-out affairs are favorite hiding places for Japs. Then began the familiar game of "flush the sniper...
...island's peak, Mt. Tapotchau, had been captured. Japs hung on in the ravines until they were killed. Tanks had to be used against pockets no bigger than 100 yards in diameter. Many Jap caves had steel doors which were opened periodically for machine guns to fire. Snipers were everywhere. An Army colonel was shot through the heart by a sniper who had hidden more than a week. A recurrent gag, reported TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, was that the safest place to be was in the front line...
...Sniper's rifle with telescope sight...