We Knew Damn Well we Wouldn’t Have a Hope in Hell

I think they were all surprised that this happened and happened so suddenly. We only had about four weeks, not even four weeks there to get acquainted with the locale. I was with the “E” company, yeah. It was a company formed by newcomers into the Grenadiers. We were waiting for word and we knew darn well we wouldn’t have a hope in hell of getting even just the few troops we had. We knew the Japs they had massive amount of troops. We would just, we’d be just be overwhelmed. There was no way out. We all knew that. Well the first thing I notice is the bombardment. They come over in broad daylight there. And too we didn’t have no guns or no machine guns, no military equipment to even shoot at those. They could bomb us the way they liked. By that time we had been fell down, well we went back to around Aberdeen. Oh what did they call Aberdeen, it was a big pool of water that the colony used for their water supply, and we went up there to try and protect that and we had quite a bit of struggle even there to . . . we eventually found and took over a station from some other group that had left and they had left a whole bunch of ammunition and we were fortunate to get that. So we used that and tried to defend the position. We both didn’t know, we all didn’t know where we were by that time.