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NO LONGER WORKS

JAPANESE TRICKERY MASQUERADING PATROL WIPED OUT. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 23. “The familiar Japanese trick of confusing American sentries by giving orders to them in English no longer works,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Phipps, just returned from the Solomons. He related how a marine ma-chine-gunner heard footsteps in the dark and fired a few bursts. A voice called out: ‘Hold your fire. We are American troops. I am bringing in my platoon.” The gunner opened fire, wiping out an enemy patrol. He later explained that it was too dammed grammatical for a marine.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421124.2.50

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

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98

NO LONGER WORKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

NO LONGER WORKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 4

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