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...smaller scale it appeared to be the same old story as Malaya-of allied troops that failed to adapt themselves adequately to jungle fighting. Some Japs carried hand grenades, had 2-in. mortars strapped to their legs, lugged flame throwers. And these impedimenta did not slow then down. Green men flowed through the green jungle...
...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...running away." He made a turn and found himself coming head-on toward the Zero. The Jap made a quick half-roll, momentarily flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other 150 feet apart and Cocky caught a glimpse of the Jap pilot climbing out of the cockpit. Both planes went into a spin. Cocky pulled out of his, but the Zero crashed into a hilltop and burst into a huge spout of flame...
Good Luck. But ordinary escapades no longer bear relating. An Air Corps lieutenant still flies whose chute failed to open at two hundred feet until his plane exploding just beneath him sent up a great blast of gas and flame-enough to blow the chute open, but not quite enough to set it afire, though the inside of it was blackened like cork. Another lieutenant swimming down a river had to fight his way through crocodiles, slashing at them with his heavy jungle knife. He escaped with a couple of nasty tooth marks in his shoulders...
...hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending you a letter 20 million workers long... written in steel and flame") and a soldier (Private William Holden-"We'll marry the girl we like-and the guy who makes a crack about her ancestry had better look out for his teeth"). The final letter, from the U.S. foreign-born, will be sent this Sunday (5 p.m. E.W.T.) by Vienna-born...