Japanese Ambushes
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Japanese Ambushes
The company commander, he was, marched us down there, in the
valley. All of a sudden, we asked him if we shouldn’t send out
scouts to see where the Japanese were and he said, “Oh no,
they’re not within miles of us.” We didn’t get very far and we
found out where they were. By that time it was too late. He was
killed, our commanding officer was killed, and our second in
command was killed and . . . well, it was pretty well every man
for himself right then. We got out of there. I got back to, some
of us got back to our company headquarters, and then we were
told, like there wasn’t that many left of us, “A” Company, and
we were told that we, I was attached to “B” Company, and we were
ambushed after that. And after that, we were just pretty well
here and there, all over the place. The Japanese, they knew
every inch of that Hong Kong. They had their men in there,
people in there, long before. Even the Chinese were backing some
of the Japanese. Heck, we were, one time we stopped this
Chinaman, he had a bag, it looked like a bag of rice on his
back. We stopped him, searched him, and here in the rice he had
a gall darn machine gun and everything else, carrying it for the
Japanese. After that, we were just little bunches of people, of
men, troops here and there. There was no organization at all
after that. But up till the 25th we were still active.
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