Courtesy Story | 215th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.01.2015
“The bush in front of me blew apart, up jumps a skinny little Japanese Soldier, clad only in shorts and holding up a (Arisaka) .25-caliber rifle. Grinning, he pulls out a single shell and lowers his hand to the trigger... I lower my M1 Garand and pump six shells into him.” Bernacki said. “It was the hardest thing… to shoot the kid.”...