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MARINE MAKESOWN DECISIONSouth Carolina Man Blows It Up When In Doubt.ClBy PFC. LEO B. PAMBK1N .Marine Corps Combat Correspondent (Distributer! Bv Cnited Press)SAN DIEGO, Calif . April 14 — (UP- When in doubt, blow up!That seemed to be the policy of gunnery Sgt. Jessie R Glover, U.S 2VI C„ 'Route 2* Gaston. S. C, when he was on Tulagi island.He put the policy into practice when he blew up an enemy ammunition dump during an action described here by his commanding officer, Lieut. Col. O. K. Pressley, Chester. S. C“Glover has served at least 20 years with the corps Nicaragua to b Shanghai and back again — and now in the Solomons,” Pressley tsaid.On Tulagi. he heard that a Japanese ammunition dump had been spotted down in ‘Deal Valley,’ a very dangerous territory,Ip short order he whipped together a patrol and headed for the valley Some time later a runner came rushing up to me in the command post, out of breath Sir. he gasped, we’ve found a Jap ammunition dump in Dead Valley. and gunnery SergeantGlover begs permission to ’ at| that instant a terrific explosion shook the ground. It seemed as if 11 the entire island had blown up. “I’ve never seen such a crest-1 fallen expression as that runner j had on his face at that moment. I Shamefacedly he said. ‘Oh, Oh. sir. it’s too late—he’s gone and done 1! it, sir!’Glover had run into the Jap [ dump. A discussion had «D«Md between turn and In- non-COOlS as to the advisability of blowing it up, and the non-coms were against it.‘ But Glover decided the Japs might come along and spoil the j; I chance—so it had been ‘stand back. 1 lads. I’m finishing her off “Sometimes I heard him say! later, you gotta make your own I1 decisions.
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Thu, Apr 15, 1943
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