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Show Amphibians had only one carbine and two mounds of ammunitjpj! Not knowing just what the Japs had in the line, of weapons they, decided that this wasn't the time to start a row and promptly took off for safer parts, , Determined, however, to find suitable timber a group of Brigade Bri-gade men went back to the same area thai aftemooon, only . this time the Amphibs took an ample supply of guns, ammunition and hand grenades so that if the un-honorable un-honorable sons of Heaven wanted to start anything they would be prepared to hit back. ' Surely enough their guns came in handier than axes that after, noon. As the first of their two jeeps, in which Lt. Arden, T4 Elmer El-mer B. Talbert., T5 Merrill W. Beck ftnd P.vti! Joe L. Dorsey were riding, rounded a curve in the so. called jungle road,, the three troublsome Nips were sighted just a stone's throw away. " Lt, Arden and T5 Beck immediately immed-iately made motions in an attempt to order the Jans to surrender. The men with the squinty eyes didn't comply and the Amphibs went into acion. Pv. Dorsey opened fire and ' dropped one, T5 Beck stopped a- notner ana r4 Talbert accounted for the third. By this time the second'" jeep, which contained T5 William. V. LaPaugh, Staff Sgt. James E. Dennis and Pvt. Kuster was on the scene. One of the Japs still had "plenty of life , iii him and was on his feet again, but not for long-as long-as Staf Sergeant Dennis opened, open-ed, fire. , "Taking a look around, the Amphibians Amp-hibians found that the Japs packs each had a grenade wired to them so they didn't do much fooling a-round a-round to find out whether or not they were a booby trap arrangement. arrange-ment. Although 'there waa a pretty pood indication that there were more Japs nearby due to the find, ing of two Jap packs in the hut where the Nips had stayed, the umall group of men moved further into enemy territorv determined to he -woodmen even if-they did have to use their "shootin irons" more often than their saws and axes. If there were any more Japs around they evidentallv decided tfiat it would be healthier for them to let flip trees trv to Rtnnd up neninst the Amphibs than to try it themselves them-selves for they failed to nut in any Mrt."t ' nT'traT!"fN . From the . lew Guinea Ramp, Hq. 3d ESB. AMPHIBIANS FIND it WISE TO INCLUDE CARBINE AS STANDARD EQUIPMENT ' FOR LUMBER JACKS ,. NEW GUINEA Amphibians have found that Japs are still more plentiful than timber on one of the Pacificg wartorj, islands, at least that proved the case on one occasion occa-sion while Third ESB troops were in search of likely looking trees from which to fashion lumber for their camp. Anxious to get the sawmill buzzing, buz-zing, Lt Irwin L. Arden, Lt. George A. Soares and Pvt. Thomas J. Kuster set out one morning to see just what the islands had to offer in the way of potential boards. Their search todk tem beyond the infantry defense permieter and in. to enemy territory, and enemy territory ter-ritory it certainly was. - Approaching a hill on which"- a ritive hut wasocated they noticed 3 men in the hut in the process of putting on their packs. The Am-T'hibs Am-T'hibs first impression' was that jthpv were Allied Infantrymen but when one happened to look their -nv their imnression changed in a hi'iry no Yank ever had that, ?1 f n t -p ved aw11 r an ce , Potwr-pn the three of them the |
