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SK: Then it's the aftermath of chaos. We saw tanks, trucks, German enemy trucks, equipment, and small cars like our jeep, and bodies hanging out from the turret of the tanks, trucks' windshield all busted up, and the driver and his rider all shot to pieces. Then I later learned that because we were stopped, the 100th Battalion made sort of an end run and caught the Germans unaware while they were withdrawing and they really (got) busted (...) up. Oh, golly, and in that process, too, they captured (...) artillery pieces, too. (...) The 100 did a good job in... what do you call that? Sometimes I get lost with words, but anyway, took them by surprise as they withdrew, you see, so...

TI: In the 100th they were much more experienced.

SK: Much more experienced, right.

TI: They had been there for quite a bit of time before the 442.

SK: Yes, that's right.

TI: And when you saw what they did, were you pretty impressed, I guess?

SK: Very much impressed.

TI: With what they did? Did it make you feel a little inadequate?

SK: [Laughs] That's right. We are just new soldiers coming up, raw soldiers, as far as battle is concerned and here we see all this dead bodies. I really, at that time praised, got good words about the 100th Battalion boys, but, of course, their leaders were good, too. Their leaders, (...) platoon leaders or company commanders were mostly Niseis, too, so they knew what they were doing, although, the head commander was Colonel Turner, is a local man.

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