Quartered Safe Out Here (1993)
Quartered Safe Out Here
“The trees were very tall and close together on its outskirts, forming a thick protective screen, but within the wood they were more widely spaced, with dim clearings under the high spreading branches. How wide the wood was I never discovered, but it can't have been more than fifty or sixty yards in depth, and beyond there was open ground stretching to another belt of trees. It must have been quite a pretty place, with those shaded clearings and the tall trunks reaching up to the high foliage th...rough which the light filtered. I sometimes wonder what it looks like now.
That wood and a nearby village were among the places used by the Japanese as concentration points for their counter-attack on Meiktila, and I believe our intelligence pin-pointed it as a result of a chance discovery made following the night action I've just described. Among the Japanese killed by our dawn patrols outside the wire was an officer—I heard he had taken cover in a culvert—and on his body were found plans listing the Jap concentration points: one of them was the temple wood, and our div command marked it for urgent attention.MoreLess
That wood and a nearby village were among the places used by the Japanese as concentration points for their counter-attack on Meiktila, and I believe our intelligence pin-pointed it as a result of a chance discovery made following the night action I've just described. Among the Japanese killed by our dawn patrols outside the wire was an officer—I heard he had taken cover in a culvert—and on his body were found plans listing the Jap concentration points: one of them was the temple wood, and our div command marked it for urgent attention.MoreLess
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