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...Blacksmith Medunov works in one of Stalingrad's factories. Through letters he became acquainted with Surkov, a sniper on the south front. Between them sprang up a peculiar war friendship. Now the blacksmith is clipping stories about snipers from newspapers, and Sniper Surkov writes the blacksmith letters. Surkov has already exterminated 230 Fascists. Medunov has twice increased his normal output...
Replied Guerrillissimo Arnold: "That spy and sniper business doesn't bother us. We've taken an oath. . . . We'd rather die [fighting] than have a bayonet run through us like they got in Hong Kong...
...good general likes to leave his men in peril. And Douglas MacArthur had to leave such men as Captain Jesus Villamor, who routed 54 Japanese planes with his squadron of six (TIME, Dec. 22), grenade-throwing old Joe Longknife, profane Lieut. Roland Sauinier, footballer-sniper Corporal Peter Flame (TIME, Mar. 9). He had to leave men who, with him, had met, stopped and beaten four Japs for every soldier in the U.S. and Philippine forces; who had survived the crushing days when it seemed that no aid would ever come from the U.S.; whose fortitude had driven one Japanese commander...
...Other particularly able scouts are American Indians in the 31st. One is Corporal Peter Flame, a 200-pound Yuma, Ariz, former football player and champion boxer, who bashfully hangs his head when reporting another sniper potted. Another is tall, lean Joe Longknife from a Montana reservation. On a recent raid he rose up out of tall grass, killed ten Japs with 16 shots, dispersed the rest with hand grenades. When he was a youngster Joe listened to tales of raiding parties told him by his father. Old Longknife, and his grandfather, Old Old Longknife...
...formed a 'suicide antisniper' unit with 84 volunteers to eliminate 300 enemy snipers who had infiltrated behind the American lines. . . . The unit cleaned up one sector of the sniper area every morning between daybreak and 8:30. They killed at least 250 and also wiped out a number of Japanese machine-gunners with hand grenades...