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Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS DAN: They were still belligerent? ov mber 11, 2004 BILL: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. As I say, they mostly tried to stay away from us. But they could be dangerous if a good number of them could jump onto an isolated American, why then they would do that. And we were warned not to go into the jungle areas if we didn't have to. "Don't go in there in the jungle looking for trouble like that. That's just when you're going to get into trouble, unless you have sufficient force to take care of yourself." But, I remember one time we had several American sailors from a submarine that was in there being refueled. And they gave the guys a little free time to go off. And a bunch of them says, "Let's see what action we can find with the marines." A bunch of marines were standing there just about ready to go into the jungle." So they got some rifles themselves, and they were going with the marines. Well, somehow they got separated from the marines. And there they were off by themselves, and they ran into a good number of Japs. And they just started being peppered by the Japs. And they were looking around and-well, where are the marines? And finally a couple of them were wounded, and they started to panic. And these guys just stood up, and held up their hands, and called out, "We surrender, we surrender. Don't shoot, don't shoot. We surrender." Well, the Japs didn't know what they were doing. They couldn't understand them. And so they just peppered them. And, so, within a couple of minutes, most of them had been killed, or wounded, and then they-the Japs were gone. So, they never should have gone out there like that. But whenever I had reason to go in there I always had about four or five people with 31 |
