Show jap line cut by one man massacre american private kills 30 in heroic attack OKINAWA pac clarence B craft santa ana calif in a one man massacre killed 30 japs and drove a wedge which his regimental commander said helped snap the jap shurl defense line fellow doughboys dough boys who had a ringside seat to a fighting performance for mance marice we hardly could believe told recently how craft almost single handedly wiped out a jap pocket in 16 10 to 15 minutes craft married and the father of abour a tour ye year arold ar old son made his one man assault on a foot hill after element elemen tp of the gerlit infantry division had been pinned down by intense machine gun fire for 10 days japs from this hill had held up two battalions two flanks of two divisions move until it was seized on may 31 a company and two platoons assaulted the hill again crat craft went into action when he reached the hilltop he began tossing grenades into trenches and foxholes as men from his platoon passed them hem up to him he straddled a tr trench ench pouring fire from his garand down into it then he jumped ln 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 km kill into a hillside cave then sealed it with a demolition charge fifty eight jap bodies 3 knee mortars 3 machine guns about 80 rifles and piles of ammunition uttered the hill when the fight was over craft himself fired five clips of rifle ammunition and threw 43 48 grenades he estimated he killed 25 japs with rifle fire the remainder with grenades grenades thrown by his buddies two of whom were wounded accounted tor for the other japs ai at one time japs and americans were dueling with grenades which sailed over crafts head |