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We went to New Guinea at one point during my tour of duty.  We visited the South East corner where we landed a group of marines.  We beached there and went ashore to check things out.  There we discovered a whole bunch of Japanese soldiers who had been badly shot up in combat and were dead.  Someone had lined them up along the beach and had either shot them there or they had been dragged there after they had been killed.  I remember being very upset at the sickly, bloody sight when I saw their badly mangled and shot up bodies.  War is truly hell.  No young man should ever have to see such a thing or be a part of such cruelty.  This was the only time I ever went to New Guinea