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After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
EASTON, PA.--Twenty tons of dynamite exploded in a tremendous sheet of flame at a Lehigh Portland Cement Co. quarry today, blowing at least 31 workmen 'to bits" leveling nearby homes and hurling debris into a community seven miles away...
...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...
...saved, eleven lost. Said John Walsh, wiper: "I saw our captain on a life raft. He and some of the other men were on it and the current was sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed. I didn't hear him. . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. He was screaming that he was going blind. . . . Gus, the quartermaster, was with us. He had a piece of steel in his head and he said...