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fffodnoiday, June t. 194S AMONG JAPANESE AT NAHAFIELD Reconnaissance Patrols Paddle Over Water to Stroll Among Japanese TEW MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE By Edward Thomm (United Press Correspondent) Nana, Okinawa, June 2. (De layed). (U.PJ (via Navy radio) 16 marine volunteers paddled across Nana harbor to the Oroku pen insula last night and wandered for three hours among the Jap anese defenders of . Naha air field. They returned unharmed to headquarters here today. These men were the first to cross Naha harbor, and It was the kind of job they have been doing since the marines landed on Okinawa. They are members of the sixth reconnaissance com pany commanded by Major An thony walker, Washington, D C. Probing ahead of the front lines is its specialty. Four Patrols The 16 marines were divided , Into four patrols, led by Corpor als Gardner OErien, Beverly Mass.; John Watson, Wilkons burg, Penn.; Harold H. Zaw, De troit, Mich., and Walter Curtis, Boston, Mass. They paddled through treach erous currents and over razor (harp coral reefs to reach the Oroku peninsula, which luts Into the China Sea below Naha. I O Brien said his patrol landed at 10 p. m. on the northernmost coral spit of the peninsula. After walking for a while to get his bearings, "I paraded right up the middle of the road. He entered the outskirts of Kagamisui, a vil lage only 200 yards north of Naha air field the best on Oki nawa, No Japs Been "We heard somebody firing a few rounds of mortars nearby," O'Brien said, "and there was soma rifle fire further down the beach. But I didn't see a single Jap soldier. Just as we were entering Kagamisui, we ducked into a ditch and watched two Okinawans walk by, only ten yards away. "I think we could have gone right through town and onto the air field, but that wasn't our mission. The road wasn't mined, and apparently there weren't many Japanese soldiers around. We took our time and went back to the beach the same way we had come right down the mid dle of the road." Members of O'Brien's patrol were Pvts. Edward Grossman, Hudson, N. Y.; Elbert Wood . hams, Sonora, CaL, and James K. Burkart, Charleston, N. C. Currents Strong Watson's patrol spotted five Japanese on a pint-sized light house on the southern shore of Naha harbor, but they didn't fire on them. This patrol also tecon noltered for three hours before returning to Its boat. "The Japanese threw four or five rifle bullets at us when we left, but that was all. We had more trouble with strong cur rents. They carried us eight or nine nundrcd yards from the ; spot we had picked out for a ' landing, Watson said. j "It wasn't so nice floating around that harbor in the dark ness, particularly after we spotted a horned mine bobbing near us." , Watson's patrol Included Pvts. R. M. Wilson, Houston, Texas; Lyle Phillips, Oklahoma City and Elsworth Q. Waters, Roches ter. N. Y. 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