TWELVT MEDTOHD MAIL THIBtTNE Sunday. October , 1944
SEALS JAPS IN
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Pvt. Charles A. Williams, Ex
pert With TNT, Disposes
Foe Refusing to Surrender
By Sergeant Harold A. Breard,
nf Monroe, La., a Marine
Corps Combat Correspondent.
Guam (Delayed) It took
12,00 pounds of TNT and the
supervision of an expert Marine
Corps demolitlonist to seal the
four entrances of an elaborate
Japanese cave near the northern
tip of Guam. "
Approximately 40 Japs, many
of them officers, were killed in
trying to escape entombment
during the two-day siege of the
cave. They had been given
ample opportunity to surrender,
but chose to die, even though
organized resistance on the is
land had been broken.
Army forces operating with
the Marines hemmed the Japs in
the cave, but the reinforced con
crete entrances had foiled the
best efforts of the soldiers to
blast them shut. Charge poles,
ong sticks with dynamite at- tion e, lho ,unnels indicated tne
fore the tunnels were sealed
held grenades to their chests
and died by their own hands.
ine majority, however, were
mowed down by the rifle and
.automatic weapon fire of the
soldiers covering the demoli
tion ists.
"There's no telling how many
Japs were killed by that terri
fic explosion," said Captain
Horn. "The careful construe
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tached to one end, had proved
ineffictive. The Japs, in fact,
had tossed several of the poles
back at the soldiers before the
dynamite had exploded.
Miner Given Job
The help of Marine engineers
was sought late the second day.
One of their best dcmolitionists,
Marine Private First Class
Charles A. Williams, of Route 4,
Medford, Ore., a miner in civil
ian life, was assigned to the job.
He decided to crumble the en
trances from above with heavy
charges of TNT. Holes were dug
down to the reinforced concrete
roofs of the tunnels. Three
hundred pounds of explosives
were packed into each hole.
The charges were exploded
simultaneously. The earth
trembled violently in the vicin
ity. It was dark by the time he
finished and Private First Class
Williams wasn't able to see how
well he had done his work. The
next day, however, his com
manding officer, Captain Char
les H. Horn, of Kent, Wash.,
was informed the entrances had
been sealed effectively.
Some Japs Suicide
Several of the Japs who rush
ed from the cave entrances be-
cave was a command post of
some sort.
The entrance to the tunnels
were about six feet wide and 10
feet high and the best built we
saw on the island."
Pfc. Williams wasn't available
for comment. He was busy
blasting a well for a Marine in
fantry outfit.
"That fellow," said his first
sergeant, "would rather fool
with dynamito and TNT than
eat."'
Pfc. Williams is not registered
with either selective service
boards in Jackson county and
other information concerning
him was not available.
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Leon Edward Champlin, 62,
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street is being held on an open
charge in the county jail follow-
! in altercations involving stab-
! bin" of a soldier. Pvt. Stanley
M. Sanchez, SCU, Camp White
on Ross Lane Friday ni"ht about
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Champlin, in company with
two women, Sanchez and an
, other soldier were riding on
Ross Lane and in an argument,
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ial) The wrockaeo nf in air
plane found in the forest of
western Klamath county by
two deer hunters was Identified
Friday as the remnants of
crashed plane previously In
spected, photographed and
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force.
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trainer clashed April 14. kllllnE
the pilot. I.t. Adnh.h Ropers
lVllcvue . Wash. A n.isspni!nr
dipt. William H. Carpenter, es
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The Act that
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How it feels to hold a soldier's hand
when he's being blinded forever!
Turn the page quick if you
want to. This isn't pleasant. It if
true. And every true American
should wad it.
It happened to that young,
lovely film star, Louise Allbritton.
They didn't tell her that day
in Hollywood when the U.S.O. invited her to join an
overseas troupe that anything like this would ever happen.
. They didn't tell her because they didn't know either.
This "act" was never on any program.
She went overseas. Gave show after show, many of
them to the accompaniment of the thunder of enemy guns.
Then one night she gave a show, and as usual, it was
more than a show. It was, to its audience, a dream of
home come true. Here was a live, lovely American girl
a symbol of all the girls all the boys had left behind them.
A week later she was asked to visit the wounded In a
base hospital, and as she passed bctweecn the long rows
of cots, a voice, weak and shy, called her name.
She bent over the youngster's cot. "I was in the audi
ence at ," lie whispered. "Since then we
were in the fighting at They got my
right eye. In a few minutes the doctors are going to take
out the other one. It's gotta be done, they told me. My
girl at home looks a lot like you. So if you could be
well, the last tiling I'll ever see in this world if you
could stay with me untiWd be a lot happier . . ."
She didn't answer. She couldn't." Could you? But she
stayed there with the boy's single-eyed gaze fixed upon
her, and her hand in his, until they wheeled him to the
operating room and the anaesthetist's merciful cone slipped
over his face, and the last thing he saw, or ever was to
see, was her face so much like the face of the girl at
home he loved . . .
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upon that operating table. So for that boy and every boy
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