HOOKS ON BAYONETS
LATEST JAPANESE STUNT Wounded men of the United States forces recently evacuated from the Solomons lighting zone to an American hospital in the Wellington Province have, little fresh to tell of land lighting on Guadalcanal-, though they all say that the conditions, under Avhich lighting is going on in the jungle are very onerous. The Japanese do not relish cold steel, according to one man who was in the front, line for 57 days. "They just can't take, it,"' he states. "They have a curious hook on some ol' their bayonets, however, with which they try to hook our rifles from our hands." This, the man adxled, did not seem, to' work with much success. " , The enemy camouflage work was very good, the. same man stated. The leaf capes they wear, originally developed, it is believed, as raincoats, but now worn as camouflage, make them very difficult to distinguish in the jungle verdure.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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156HOOKS ON BAYONETS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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