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hill much as the gate swings, with Company L on the hilltop being the hinge. One of the leaders of Company G’s attack was Private First Class Joe M. Nishimoto, an acting squad leader. Leading his men, he crawled through a heavily mined and booby-trapped area to reach a machine gun nest that was

Once you got up the Germans shot you because they were waiting”. German guns usually found their mark, “Snipers were getting our guys in the forehead”, said Joe Shimamura, K Company. “They must have had a telescopic rifle. This is why nobody wanted to get up”. Nevertheless, the riflemen rose to their feet, charging