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...went home after that for a breather, met and married pretty, 21-year-old Ada North. But he was soon back in the South Pacific, fighting in Abemama and Majuro, and in the Marshall Islands, where he was wounded by a Jap hand grenade...
...Marshalls one night, Marine Smith found himself with two comrades in a foxhole within earshot of the enemy. In Japanese, he invited confused Jap soldiers to join him. One after another, four of them crawled over; Smith quietly bayoneted them to death. Smith's friends left for another foxhole. Said he: "I guess they thought I was crazy...
...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
...answer was simpler than the commanders' problems were. Months before V-J day, the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington foresaw the enormous complexities involved in taking the surrender of some 5,000,000 Jap troops and civilians, scattered from Manchuria to Java. On V-J day all Allied commanders -U.S., British, Chinese - in the Asiatic theaters had a directive instructing them to 1 ) do anything necessary to facilitate the Jap surrender; 2) rescue and protect Allied personnel and property; 3) do all this without involving Allied personnel or arms in "fratricidal strife...
Every move so far, from Dairen to Batavia, has been according to orders and according to plan. The British went to Java to take the surrender of the Jap forces and protect Allied (i.e., Dutch) lives and property. In doing so they found themselves fighting Indonesian Nationalists who are not Allies and are against the Dutch. Chinese troops moved into Indo-China - but only into the area which was part of the China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there...