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Parent | East is West News Article |
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Date | 24 December 1945 |
Language | English |
Collection | C.W.J. Phelps Collection |
Box | Box 1 |
Folder | First Phelps Scrap Book |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
Without explanation, they raised guns and fired point-blank. The American escaped only by jumping into a canal. Shortly before that one Marine was killed and one wounded while hunting near the village of Anshan. Marines shelled the village in retaliation. Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, commander of the Third amphibious Corps, forbade Marines to leave their garrisons if they were not members of an armed party.