mvogler@eagletribune.com May 29, 2010 May 29, 2010 METHUEN — Andrew A. Haldane was only 27 when a Japanese sniper's bullet ended his life Oct. 12, 1944, on Peleliu Island in one of the bloodiest ...

One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: “Sir, Japanese sniper—this way, please!” Often he slipped at night to his parents’ home ...

Amin was a fearless man,” he recalls. The ex-soldier says they showed no mercy to the enemies when a lone Japanese sniper killed nearly an entire battalion that was largely composed of Kenyans.