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...Tikhonov, a scout, was supposed to bring his prisoners in alive, for questioning. But his prisoners always had their heads and bodies bashed and were dead or dying. Scout Tikhonov wept, and wrung his hands, and promised to do better, and never did. He said that he had seen the Germans rape and kill a girl in the barn at home...
...past the Cavite shoreline, where Jap artillery blazed intermittently at Forts Drum and Hughes. Beyond the bay they laid a tricky course to freedom. "A tight feeling in our stomachs," they sat on deck with legs and arms crossed as well as fingers. When a member of the crew wrung a chicken's neck, "the agonized squawk made us jump, our stomachs rejoining us some time after...
From their devious grapevine of military information, the U.S. Army on Bataan Peninsula this week wrung a gratifying drop of sap. The Japanese had done so badly on Luzon that a new commander had been sent to clean out the remnants of Douglas MacArthur's little force. The substitute: General Tomoyuki Yamashita (TIME, March 2), bandy-legged, pout-bellied commander of the Jap army in its swift, destructive rush through Malaya...
Partly it was rain that upset their calculations, miring them in hub-deep, sucking mud. But mostly they had failed because they were faced by the only troops in Asia who could match them in war-wrung experience. They themselves had taught these Chinese veterans how to snuggle against protecting hills, how to gauge ranges and rations, how to hold out hopelessly or attack desperately...
...Southwest Transportation Co. which Stowe accused of lush war-wrung profits, is a 100% Government-owned subsidiary. All its profits go into upkeep and maintenance...