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first marines are hunkered down, pinned down further north on white beach one and two are captain pope, private first class fox, but what they didn t know is colonel nakagawa s men had changed their tactics. they had five levels of caves. we were not prepared for that kind of a defense. to our left it was a point of land which the japanese had fortified. we scared them completely, fire control down the beach. it was just terrible. you re still getting heavy gunfire from the japanese. they didn t have a fixed fire pattern apparently. they would run their mortars out on the platform, get back in the cave, and do that repeatedly. it was chaos. as the 1st and 5st marines gathered, they witness aid different kind of confusion. we were jumping the gun, so to speak, because some high-ranking officer thought it was time to go, even though we had not been requested. we finally went up to the line of departure and the wave officer said, i don t have any orders to se ....