Crisp County GaArchives News.....FROM PEARL HARBOUR TO GUADALCANAL PART 11 1942
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CORDELE DISPATCH 1942
 THE TREES ARE ALWAYS FULL OF JAP SNIPERS IN JAP INFESTED JUNGLE WARFARE. THEY 
SHOOT MALICIOUSLY, BUT VERY EFFECTIVELY AS THEIR VISION IS SO POOR THAT THEY 
ARE INACURATE AT ANY DISTANCE. CLOSE UP THEY SHOOT FAIRLY WELL ALTHOUGH THEIR 
LONG GUNS ARE NO MATCH FOR THE 1600 YARD, ACURATE NEW ARMY RIFLES. JAP 
SOLDIERS WERE UNIFORMS CLOSLY RESEMBLING ARMY FATIGUE CLOTHES AND CATTY A 
RIFLE THAT DWARFS THEM IN SIZE, USUALLY OF .25 CALIBRE. THE JAPS ON 
GUADALCANAL HAD VERY LITTLE CHANCE TO FIGHT AS THEY WERE ALWAYS CUT OFF FROM 
SUPPLIES AND MOSTLY CARRIED ON SNIPER AND GUERR ILLA WAR.ALWAYS, THE VICTIM 
KILLED WASTED ,SICK, AND HALF STARVED MANICAL LITLE MEN.
 ON ONE BATTLE OF A MAIN JAP FORCE,AS THEY WERE CORNERED, MORE THAN 1200 WERE 
KILLED IN A SMALL SECTON AND PILED WITH A BULLDOZIER AND BURNED WITH 
GASOLINE.THE JAPS ON GUALDACANAL VERY SELDOM MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO BURY THOSE 
KILLED IN BATTLE. AFTER THE MAIN FORCE WAS DESTROYED AMERICAN FORCE PATROLLED 
THE AREA FOR MONTHS PICKING UP STRAGGLERS WHO HAD HIDDEN IN THE HILLS LIVING 
OFF ROOTS AND HERBS,HALF STARVED,FEVERRIDDEN AND RAGGED. ONCE WHEN SARGEANT 
ROBERTS WAS AT THE FRONT A PACKAGE WAS SENT TO HEADQUARTERS WHICH CONTAINED 
CLOTHING TAKEN OFF A DEAD JAP WOMAN. SHE HAD BEEN KILLED AS A SNIPER,OUTSIDE 
SHE WAS A UNIFORM BUT HER UNDERCLOTHES WERE FEMININE.
 SARGEANT ROBERTS ENLISTED IN THE ARMY MAY 2,1941 WEIGHING 186 POUNDS, WAS 
DISCHARGED AT HAMMOND GENERAL HOSPITAL, MODESTO,CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 14,1943 
UNDER SECTION 2. HE WILL BE ELIGABLE FOR DRAFT AFTER 6 MONTHS REST. SERVICE OF 
2 YEARS,6 MONTHS,AND 19 DAYS. ROBERTS LOOKS HALE AND HEARTY WEIGHING 176 
POUNDS WHEN DISCHARGED. HE HOPES TO BE IN ON THE KILL AT TOKYO. NOW HE IS 
ENJOYING A WELL-EARNED REST AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS,MR AND MRS S.E. ROBERTS.
 ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ROBERTS FPND WAS THE GUNS FROM THE U.S.S. 
QUINCY HAD BEEN SALVAGED AND WERE NOW GUARDING ISLANDS IN THE SOLOMONS. A 
TRIBUTE TO THE BOYS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE USS QUINCY TO KNOW THAT THE 
QUINCY'S GUNS ARE STILL FIRING AT THE JAPANESE WHO SENT HER TO THE BOTTOM IN 
THE BATTLE OF SAVO ISLAND IN WHICH BILL SANDERS OF CORDELE GAVE HIS LIFE ON 
AUGUST 9,1942.SARGEANT ROBERTS REPORTED RECEIVING THE DISPATCH REGULARLY WHILE 
ON GUADALCANAL. THE NEWS IS REPORTED WITH A GREAT DEGREE OF ACCURACY IN THE 
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. HE SAID THE ARMY CHECKED THE BATTLE FIGURES WITH RADIO NEWS 
NIGHTLY.

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