Show japs improvise guns but lose them in luzon fi fight t ht MANILA improvising makeshift weapons remnants of japanese troops on northern luzon attempted to carry on their fight in the shattered pocket under attack by the american ath infantry division A mortar hastily built from a length of three inch galvanized water pipe was found in one nipponese position its base was part of the frame of a wrecked truck in defile other red star division doughboys dough clough boys found land mines made of 75 mm shell cases filled with picric acid explosive hand I 1 grenades filled with picric acid and sections of japanese 37 mm shell 1 cases evidently also intended for I 1 makeshift mines were also found |