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Description
Mr. Guthrie describes ferrying special forces behind Japanese lines, highlighting one instance when it was doubtful they would make their return.
Transcription
Interviewer: Those special service troops must have been some courageous boys.
They were, they were, they weren't with... There was usually about five of them and two, four went ashore and one stayed with a walkie talkie with a radio aboard the ship and they the, they was kayaks and they just went up, yeah, so. One time we were so close we heard the Japanese talking so, and then they were over and out, over due so he didn't know, we didn't know what to do. So the marine officer asked us, he says, "If they don't come back within the next half hour, would you bombard the village, and give them maybe a chance to get out of it". So, oh well, we were kind of leery about that because, I mean, we were right in there and we thought how are we going to get out if we start bombarding. But it didn't have to be because about five minutes later they showed up so, so we still crept away silently.