Skip,

Yes, there were throats cut, and worse. The earliest memory of psychological warfare tricks by the japs was at Buna, in New Guinea.

Some would creep in to your lines in the dark, in one encounter at night a jap was reaching in my hole and touched my knee, I took his forearm off at the elbow with a machete and he wouldn't stop screaming, I can still hear that.

At Buna, the japs played a phonograph record which had been hooked up to loud speakers, a popular song at the time in '42 by Bing Crosby was White Christmas, they played it over and over, it brought a few men to the breaking point, yelling out, or opening fire and getting return fire. I grew to despise that song, I still do.

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All the Best
Jack