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Among countless examples of heroism that were recorded last week not the least was that of black-skinned, black-toothed Sergeant Katue, of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, who turned up at a New Guinea base after stalking Japs through the jungles for 73 days and picking off 26 of them, including one in an orange tree...
Said Private Moore from his hospital cot: "I got up next to the sergeant guarding the turret and one of the Japs stuck his head down inside. I shot him right between the eyes. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and I saw the tank commander go down. Then I felt a burning pain in my neck and realized they must have thrown a grenade down the turret. A few moments later they set fire to the tank. The driver and I figured it was better to get outside and get shot rather than burn to death. The driver poked...
...retreated when a strangely dressed figure emerged from the woods near Fort McPherson, Ga. Clad in heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...
From dried poison-ivy leaves Sergeant Shapiro concocts a unique extract which cures ivy poisoning, cause of 15 to 30% of summer and fall casualties in Southern Army posts. The dried, crushed leaves are soaked in pure alcohol until it turns an intense green. This solution is then filtered, put up in 50 cc. (1⅔ oz.) bottles and shipped to Army camps throughout the Fourth Service Command (the Southeastern...
...extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...