| Show how a handful of Devil dogs armed with one machine gun slew japanese in a three hour battle on guadalcanal Guadal canal warnings were issued that evening that one of our patrols would be coming through the woods after making a reconnaissance in front of the lines late in the evening some 50 men app approached roachel us we thought it was as our own patrol said pac jacl sugarman Sug arnan but we taking any chances we hollered halt fired a shot over their liehr heads and no one answered then the attack began japanese troops rushed the barbed wire defenses and attempted to scale them with a bridge made ot of poles and cloth for each man that tell fell it seemed there were two more to take his place the japs threw everything ery thing at the machine gun positions including grenades dynamite and flame throwers th rowers five times when the japs were jt attacking said sugarman ang arman our oar gun g ain jammed aud and we had to work pretty fast to clear it then their mortars found tile the range seven times we had to move our gun position 11 the battle lasted three hours according to sugarman he estimated that the machine gun pumped out rounds and dead japs lay in front of their sector |
