WALKED INTO SEA
JAPS REFUSE TO SURRENDER
NEW YORK, January 21. How 200 Japanese soldiers walked into the sea and drowned themselves is told by Colonel Leroy Hunt, who led the victorious assault by United States Marines against Guadalcanal last August. The Japanese were surrounded and apparently preferred drowning to surrender. "I just sat under a palm tree and watched them," he said. "It was hard to believe, even though I saw it." The Japanese were veterans of the East Indies campaign who had been sent on a flanking movement to trap the Americans, but a counter-flanking movement trapped them. Colonel Hunt said the Americans were slightly jittery at first, but they soon found that the Japanese were no supermen, overcame their jitters, and beat the enemy at their own game of jungle fighting. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5
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