Show Jap a Line ine Cut by One-Man One Massacre American Private Kills 30 In Heroic Attack OKINAWA Clarence B B. B Craft Santa Ana Calif in a one- one man massacre killed 30 Japs and drove a wedge which his regimental commander said helped snap the Jap defense line Fellow doughboys who had a ringside scat seat to a fighting performance performance performance per per- we hardly could believe lieve told recently how Craft almost single-handedly single wiped out a Jap pocket in hi 10 to 15 minutes Craft married and the father tather of ofa a year old son made his one- one man assault on a foot toot hill after elements of the infantry divi sion had been pinned down by Intense Intense intense In In- tense machine gun fire For 10 days Japs from this hill had held up two battalions Two flanks of ot two divisions couldn't move until It was seized On May 31 a company and two platoons assaulted the hill again Craft went into action When he reached the hilltop he began tossing tossing tossing toss toss- ing grenades into trenches and foxholes foxholes fox- fox holes boles as men from his platoon passed them up to him He straddled straddled straddled strad strad- a trench pouring fire from his Garand down Into it Then he jumped in mowing down Japs as they got to him He knocked out a heavy machine gun and its crew as he strode through the trench He drove the Japs he didn't kill into a hillside cave then sealed It with a demolition demolition demolition demoli demoli- tion charge Fifty eight Jap bodies 3 knee mortars 3 machine guns about 80 rifles and piles of ot ammunition littered littered lit- lit ered the hill when the fight was over Craft himself fired five clips of ot rifle ammunition and threw 48 grenades He estimated he killed 25 Japs with rifle fire the remainder with grenades Grenades thrown by his buddies two wo of whom were wounded accounted accounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted for the other Japs At one onetime onetime time ime Japs and Americans were dueling dueling duel- duel ing ng with grenades which sailed over Crafts Craft's head |