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...made famous in newspapers, an unarmed Japanese crouches dazedly out of his hole directly in front of two Marines, starts to run away, and is slammed to earth by a bullet in a death as curt and ghastly as any ever publicly released. In still another, one of two stretcher-bearers falls shot, and the head of the wounded man bangs to the ground. It is not possible to describe the sickening jolt in the heart and stomach which these and other shots give; it is equally impossible to escape the jolt when you see them...
Later, TIME Correspondent William Gray went in, poked about, saw this aftermath of battle: "A Filipino woman, carried past on a stretcher, muttered: 'I am so pleased.' Two Chinese boys came carrying a litter with four small boys on it. One, maybe two years old, with stick-like brown arms and legs and glazed eyes that stared, was dead, or dying...
...found they taste like rabbit). In the camp's black market they had bartered diamond rings and watches for condensed milk and rice, had paid thousands of dollars for food the Jap guards stole from the camp storehouse. Additional supplies were smuggled past Jap guards by solemn-faced stretcher-bearers...
...last resistance at the south end of the oval. The capture had cost more U.S. casualties than the taking of many a German village. Among the U.S. wounded was a sergeant who had had both legs blown off by a mine. To a major who came up to his stretcher, he mumbled weakly: "We took our objective, sir." The major wept...
...Flaming Crocks. My platoon hugged the wall of a half-demolished building for a second as a rain of Jerry mortars crashed near by-then moved on again as stretcher-bearers went to work on the wounded...