Obviously, someone isn't reading links or threads. This idea of one guy with a machinegun at WN 62 killed...KILLED 1000 + soldiers is absurd. If The Discovery Channel is putting this on a documentary as fact then they need to fire their research and copy departments for not doing even a minimum of checking. It took me all of five minutes, if that, to look up in three or four books a map of Ohama beach, the location of WN 62 and what landed within 1000 yards of that position along with the casualties that the US suffered.
As I have pointed out this claim is completely absurd. US casualties, killed, wounded, missing....THE TOTAL CASUALTIES SUFFERED.... don't amount to 1000 men. So, how some guy with a machinegun could have caused that many is simply fantasy or delusional. This guy likely killed a couple dozen men, wounded maybe as many as 50 to 100 and that's it. He probably didn't get that many. Will we ever know the exact count? No. But, one thing is for sure he didn't get 1000 + like he claims.