(Photo: DO NOT ENTER - Our troops ignored it )
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MINEFIELD |
21 Feb 45. The Co. went
out to clean Japs out of ravine below the big gun position and to
clean the caves along the water's edge. A field artillery and mortar
preparation was fired before the company moved out and at 0830 the
company moved into the ravine. About a third of the way down the
ravine four Japs were found hiding under a culvert and killed. Two
more were found in a pillbox further down the trail and killed. A
Jap water point was found which was much better than former points.
As the patrol continued down the trail barbed wire entanglements and
land mines were encountered. Six Jap
anti-aircraft guns were found. About twenty well-armed Japs were
encountered in a cave along the water's edge.
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