HAD AN IDEA
AMERICAN SOLDIER’S SUSPICION WHEN BANANA LEAF TOSSED GRENADE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. One of the war’s masterly understatements is credited to an American soldier, Stanley Szustek, of Chicago, who recently killed his first Japanese on Bougainville. The Japanese was behind a banana leaf, which kept moving towards the American. When a field cap protruded momentarily, Szustek fired successfully. ■‘l had an idea something was screwy,” he said, “because the banana leaf had just tossed a grenade.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 4
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