X-Day: Japan: Front Line Reporting at the Greatest Invasion and the Dawn of Nuclear Warfare by X-Day Japan

Author:X-Day Japan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Stone Lake Press
Published: 2015-06-26T07:00:00+00:00

59, and dragging it up to its hole in the mountain had to be a mean feat, along with fitting out the hole. The gun could be taken back in out of sight after firing. “We didn’t see the cave, which we think was hand dug, until about 200 yards away. It was already abandoned, but a pair of machine guns was left waiting for us to approach and check it out. They had the thing on tracks, with a manual traverse that was slow, but worked. It was right under a natural brow in the hill, with brush around it, some of it drug there recently. The whole thing looked like nothing but a dark spot on the hill, on a sunny day. Oh, they had other shallow painted fake cave entrances scattered around it. One of them we pounded with 155s and rockets for days, just a hundred yards away – for nothing.”

The bad news, from the sound of some previous nights’ artillery barrages, is that the gun has friends. There are more eight inch diameter projectiles stacked up next to smuggled guns in artificial caves under ancient mountains ahead of us. This one had absolutely nothing left around it. There were no leftover rounds. Either the Japs timed out the schedule of firing exactly to the day a US division would overtake the position, or they took what was left back to the next fire-breathing hole in the ground.

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