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Show azimuths. They knew right where it was going to hit becau th y d had v nty y ar t practice so they didn 't have to come up and have forward observ r or anything. h y knew it was going to go. And my God, you saw that picture of the pillboxes, that hill we took when we lost all our people? When Fox Company was supposed to take the hill, and they got pinned down at the bottom, and we went up to the top. When they first showed it to me, it looked like sheep on the side of the hill, just white. There were so many pillboxes it looked like a herd of sheep. Well, they raised the artillery barrage, so we went right on up. They were still stunned inside these pillboxes. Well, then they came to. You don't go back down, so here we are up on the top. We were there from, oh, seven o'clock that morning until just at dark. We were out of ammunition. We'd been fighting the last hour with bayonets. Up the north end was a cliff, and it had a trail coming up to it to the guns that were up on the top. This was a real steep trail. Only one man at a time could get up. So we would take one guy that would sit back a little bit with a bayonet. The other guy would stand over the side with his rifle, like a baseball bat. This Japanese soldier would come up this trail, and you'd gig him with a bayonet, and the next guy wraps him across the head and knocks him off that hill. They saw what was happening, and they just kept coming. They just kept one right after the other, kept coming. They knew it was going to happen. They just kept coming, until your arms got tired. There was only, oh, I think, there was thirteen of us then. Yeah, because that's when I took over the platoon. There were thirteen all together, and some of them were 108 |
