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Show Japs Last Stand QUAM MARINE CORPS PHOTO Soundphoto Armed with hand grenades, a fanatical Jap sniper boarded this Corsair fighter plane on the Orotc Peninsula airstrip here, and hid in the fuselage for several hours before exploding the first of two grenades under the feet of the pilot, Marine Lt. Lowell E. Wilkerson of St. Marie, Idaho. Strips were hacked out of the side of the plane to frisk the dead but still armed Jap, before his removal. Lt. Wilkerson escaped es-caped injury and is shown shirtless leaning over the form of his would-be executioner. |