Foro Militar General

At the siege of Nhpum Ga, where the 2nd Battalion held off a much larger force of Japanese for some 12 days, the Battalion´s Nisei interpreters demonstrated remarkable bravery in defense of their comrades, regularly going outside the Marauder perimeter at night to listen to the Japanese. On the night of April 5/6, Sergeant Roy Matsumoto, armed only with a bayonet, crawled close to the Japanase positions. Matsumoto overhead the Japanese discussing an attack planed for the next morning at dawn on the position held by Lieutenant McLogan and his platoon. With this intelligence McLogan planned a trap: He had 20 men holding a small section of hillside bellow the crest of a ridge that sloped downhill to the hungle where the Japanese were gathering for their attack. Mc Logan pulled his men back to the ridge line, booby-trapped the vacated foxholes and brought forward all his Thompson gunners and B.A.R. men. When the japanese attacked they quickly reached the empty foxholes where they hesitated for a moment. Sergeant Matsumoto immediately stood up in his foxhole on the ridge and shouted orders to the Japanese troops to charge forward. In the firing and confusion the Japanese followed his commands, charging up the hill and running into a storm of fire and grenades from the Marauders on the ridge. When the attack ended the Marauders counted 54 Japanese dead bellow them.

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The ambush was a combat technique that both the Marauders and the Japanese employed in the jungle. In some of the terrain in northern Burma, the jungle growth was so thick that a man sitting two or three feet off a trail would be nearly invisible. Ambushes were hard to detect, which meant that survival required constant vigilance and lightning-quick reactions. The Marauders' automatic and semi-automatic weapons gave them a decided advantage over the Japanese in an ambush. Armed with an M1 Garand, a carbine, a Thompson, or a BAR, a Marauder could get off two to four shots before a Japanese soldier had a chance to react. The hours the Marauders spent in
marksmanship training paid off in superior accuracy. The steep jungle-covered hills gave the ambusher an added advantage, making it more difficult for his opponents to move around his flanks, thus enabling a small force to hold off superior numbers.

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