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Marines on Guam and Saipan report wartime quirks and acts
Marines on Guam adapt dog tags by hiding one in a shoe string and wire work using Japanese poles. They savor rare Siberian crab meat from New York distributors found in Japanese dumps. On Rota, bombs from Japan and captured U S gear aid operations, while Saipan roosters brood under dawn shelling. A Marine lieutenant colonel tests a private about kills with a blunt reply.
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Guam
Solomons
Siberia
New York
G. I. Chow
Marine Corps
U. S
Rota
Japan
Saipan
Chas. R. Vandergrift
Aslito
Army Air Corps