| Show How a Handful of Armed With One Machine Gun Slew Japanese in a Three Hour Battle on Guadalcanal Warnings were issued that eve eve- evening ev evening ning that one of our patrols would would be coming through the woods after making n R reconnaissance in front of the lines Late in the evening some I 50 men approached us use i ie e le thought It was W our own 0 11 pa pa- patrol patrol said lc Jack Sugarman but I Ie we e e weren't taking any chances We WI I hollered halt bait tired fired a n shot over lr their heads and alid no one answered Then I the attack began Japanese troops rushed the barbed wire defenses and attempted to scale them with a n bridge brige bri ge made of poles and cloth For each cach man that fell it seemed there were two more to take his place The Japs threw ev ev- everything at the machine gun positions positions lions Including grenades dynamite and flame throwers Five Fhe times when the Japs were wore I attacking said Sugarman Su our gun jammed and we had to work pretty prett fast to clear it U. Then their mortars found lound the Ule range Seven times we had to move our run gun un lion tion The battle lasted three hours hour ac according ac- ac according cording to lie He estira that the machine gun pumped out rounds and 15 dead Japs lay in front of their sector |
