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.Hemust have crawled nearly three miles, right through the whole battle.This was merely what hadhappened to him.As if this wasn't enough, he also insisted in spluttering out a very valuabledescription of what the Jap force had consisted, its numbers and weapons.All this was passed onimmediately.A bullet hit the jeep as I was telephoning.Vouza had lost pints of blood and was in terrible shape.He fully expected to die and before hepassed out again he gave me a long dying message for his wife and children.Once he had done hisduty, the terrific strain told, and he collapsed.We carried him back and got the doctors workingon him.He was operated on, pumped full of new blood, and it was expected that he would live,that was, if the hospital was not disturbed by air-raids.What loyalty the man had, and whatamazing vitality.I felt immensely proud.8Vouza rallied, and lived to lead many jungle patrols.The marines had thrown back two desperate attacks; hundreds of silent bodies sprawled on the sandtestified to the serious wound inflicted on a persistent enemy.But how gravely was the Jap hurt? Thesporadic chatter of Nambu light machine guns, the slower and more methodical bup-bup-bup of hiddenheavies, furtive movement in the shadows of the coconut palms across the river all suggested toThomas that in spite of the battering he had absorbed, the Jap was very much alive."We aren't going tolet those people lie-up there all day," he said, and proposed immediate envelopment of the enemyposition.Vandegrift concurred and released Division reserve, the 1st Battalion of Cates's First Marines,commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lenard B.Cress-well.Thomas explained the scheme of maneuver: Cresswell would cross the river upstream of the Japaneseas soon as possible, turn 90 degrees north, fan out and drive toward the sea, while from the west bankPollock's battalion pinned the enemy.Shortly after noon, Cresswell's battalion completed its concealeddeployment to the rear of a line of departure along the edge of the jungle which enclosed the coconutgrove to the south.When the attack jumped off, it moved slowly but steadily.Caught in a hail of crossfire, and with artillery shells bursting in the palms above them, the Japanese abandoned their foxholesand ran desperately in every direction.But there was no escape.While three companies relentlessly compressed them, a fourth cut off retreatto the east.Artillery fire crashed down on what was left of Colonel Ichiki's pocketed 1st Battalion; thenewly-arrived planes made repeated bombing and strafing runs.At three o'clock a platoon of light tanksrolled across the sandspit belching canister, their steel treads mangling and crushing alike the living, thedying and the dead.Vandegrift, in describing this final phase of the battle, wrote "the rear of the tankslooked like meat grinders."9The battle of the 'Tenaru" was history.The "divine influence" of the imperial army's "devil-subduingsharp bayonets" had been nullified.10 Almost 800 Japanese had been killed, 15 wounded prisonerstaken.About 30 of the demoralized survivors crawled off into the jungle; some, grievously wounded, lived only to starve to death; a mere handful, including Ichiki, managed to return to Taivu to join thesignal group there.Pollock's battalion sustained 69 casualties; Cresswell's but 20.Most of the wounded resisted marines who were now trying to help rather than kill them.Severalsouvenir hunters were shot by prostrate and apparently dead Japanese, and Lt.Cols.Twining, Pollockand Cresswell, who were surveying the carnage, were momentarily discomposed by a dyingnoncommissioned officer who discharged an automatic pistol in their faces and then blew off the top ofhis own head.One officer, Captain Takao Tamioka, survived the holocaust.Colonel Ichiki, who afterdefeat had hurried to Taivu with the color bearer, reverently tore his regiment's color to shreds, pouredoil on the scraps, set a flame to them, and committed hara-kiri.At a total cost of 99 casualties, including 43 killed, the marines had eliminated one of the elite stormdetachments of the Japanese Army.11 But in truth they had accomplished much more.The myth ofJapanese invincibility, fractured at Tulagi and Gavutu, was shattered at the "Tenaru." Here, in the wordsof the Japanese report, "the detachment commander gradually poured in his entire strength but therewas no development in the battle situation.The greater part of the 1st echelon.now without anyadvantages, died heroically."12A few days later, Vandegrift found time to write HolcombGeneral, I have never heard or read of this kind of fighting.These people refuse to surrender [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Hemust have crawled nearly three miles, right through the whole battle.This was merely what hadhappened to him.As if this wasn't enough, he also insisted in spluttering out a very valuabledescription of what the Jap force had consisted, its numbers and weapons.All this was passed onimmediately.A bullet hit the jeep as I was telephoning.Vouza had lost pints of blood and was in terrible shape.He fully expected to die and before hepassed out again he gave me a long dying message for his wife and children.Once he had done hisduty, the terrific strain told, and he collapsed.We carried him back and got the doctors workingon him.He was operated on, pumped full of new blood, and it was expected that he would live,that was, if the hospital was not disturbed by air-raids.What loyalty the man had, and whatamazing vitality.I felt immensely proud.8Vouza rallied, and lived to lead many jungle patrols.The marines had thrown back two desperate attacks; hundreds of silent bodies sprawled on the sandtestified to the serious wound inflicted on a persistent enemy.But how gravely was the Jap hurt? Thesporadic chatter of Nambu light machine guns, the slower and more methodical bup-bup-bup of hiddenheavies, furtive movement in the shadows of the coconut palms across the river all suggested toThomas that in spite of the battering he had absorbed, the Jap was very much alive."We aren't going tolet those people lie-up there all day," he said, and proposed immediate envelopment of the enemyposition.Vandegrift concurred and released Division reserve, the 1st Battalion of Cates's First Marines,commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lenard B.Cress-well.Thomas explained the scheme of maneuver: Cresswell would cross the river upstream of the Japaneseas soon as possible, turn 90 degrees north, fan out and drive toward the sea, while from the west bankPollock's battalion pinned the enemy.Shortly after noon, Cresswell's battalion completed its concealeddeployment to the rear of a line of departure along the edge of the jungle which enclosed the coconutgrove to the south.When the attack jumped off, it moved slowly but steadily.Caught in a hail of crossfire, and with artillery shells bursting in the palms above them, the Japanese abandoned their foxholesand ran desperately in every direction.But there was no escape.While three companies relentlessly compressed them, a fourth cut off retreatto the east.Artillery fire crashed down on what was left of Colonel Ichiki's pocketed 1st Battalion; thenewly-arrived planes made repeated bombing and strafing runs.At three o'clock a platoon of light tanksrolled across the sandspit belching canister, their steel treads mangling and crushing alike the living, thedying and the dead.Vandegrift, in describing this final phase of the battle, wrote "the rear of the tankslooked like meat grinders."9The battle of the 'Tenaru" was history.The "divine influence" of the imperial army's "devil-subduingsharp bayonets" had been nullified.10 Almost 800 Japanese had been killed, 15 wounded prisonerstaken.About 30 of the demoralized survivors crawled off into the jungle; some, grievously wounded, lived only to starve to death; a mere handful, including Ichiki, managed to return to Taivu to join thesignal group there.Pollock's battalion sustained 69 casualties; Cresswell's but 20.Most of the wounded resisted marines who were now trying to help rather than kill them.Severalsouvenir hunters were shot by prostrate and apparently dead Japanese, and Lt.Cols.Twining, Pollockand Cresswell, who were surveying the carnage, were momentarily discomposed by a dyingnoncommissioned officer who discharged an automatic pistol in their faces and then blew off the top ofhis own head.One officer, Captain Takao Tamioka, survived the holocaust.Colonel Ichiki, who afterdefeat had hurried to Taivu with the color bearer, reverently tore his regiment's color to shreds, pouredoil on the scraps, set a flame to them, and committed hara-kiri.At a total cost of 99 casualties, including 43 killed, the marines had eliminated one of the elite stormdetachments of the Japanese Army.11 But in truth they had accomplished much more.The myth ofJapanese invincibility, fractured at Tulagi and Gavutu, was shattered at the "Tenaru." Here, in the wordsof the Japanese report, "the detachment commander gradually poured in his entire strength but therewas no development in the battle situation.The greater part of the 1st echelon.now without anyadvantages, died heroically."12A few days later, Vandegrift found time to write HolcombGeneral, I have never heard or read of this kind of fighting.These people refuse to surrender [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]