Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 34
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boat--he and I treaded water there in the Sulu Sea
and agreed upon a system of wig-wag whereby we would
call for the fires, and then we'd mark the fires, we'd
cease the fires, and stuff like that. I had to go
down then on the sandy shore of the Sulu Sea with the
Japanese firing toward the shore from the inland to
wig-wag to the boat out there what to do.
Well, the cannons of the Japanese knew . . .
they saw how sensitive it was. So they would shoot
at the boat, and the boat'd have to kind of, like a
little dog, put his tail in between his legs and run.
Then they'd start shooting at me. I had a little
enlisted man, Larry Silva, a little eighteen, nineteen
year old boy, that I asked to guard me from the fires
while I was out there. We went all the way through.
We captured Zamboanga.
Let me give you one little incident along the
way. At noontime, at twelve o'clock, with the Japanese
shooting at us, we had the protection of a little bit
of foliage. The beach was here (gesture), and then
there was a little rise. The Japanese mortars could
hit us, but their flat trajectory weapons could not
get us. We were moving about twelve o'clock, and the
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/35/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.