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...date was Dec. 14, 1944. The place was Puerto Princesa in the Philippines. On that date in that place Jap guards drove 150 U.S. prisoners into air-raid tunnels, emptied gasoline into the tunnel openings and set them afire. The victims, enveloped in flames and screaming in agony, swarmed from the shelters. As they did, they were bayoneted or machine-gunned. About 40 who threw themselves over a 50-ft. cliff onto a beach were attacked by sentries on the shore. Many, moaning in agony, were buried alive...
...Supersonic wind-tunnels for studying missiles (like the V2) which move far faster than sound. The Navy is dismantling one such tunnel, will bring...
Scratchings heard on quiet summer nights and marked inactivity around the visible parts of the "Poonsters' haunts led to the discovery of the tunnel, which was at the point of completion. Routed from his position with minimal losses, the "Poon, in the red-faced words of O. J. Zwoncus, ocC. said, "Hot, isn't it?" The Crime will use Lampy's tunnel for reconversion in its heating plan...
...Freight cars rattled eastward across Ger many. Russian and Polish repatriates were packed in until there was no room to sit. Some, looking happy for cameramen, sunned themselves (see cut), waved at Red Army soldiers, ducked when the train crawled through a tunnel...
...pair of 20-mm. Jap guns aimed down the trail. Charlie got them with a squirrel-hunter's "bark" shot, hitting the rock wall beside the guns and splattering them with shell and rock fragments. Next he blasted open the heavy steel doors of a Jap tunnel and set off a store of enemy ammunition...