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Excerpt from 1997 Chinese OG reunion: James (Jim) A. Gardner Operations: Roy Gallant, Al Johnson and Tom McGuire were with me (Jim) in both France and China. We had the honor of taking a Japanese emplacement and during the process Roy was shot in the shoulder. The Chinese guerrillas started out with the OGs but when the mortars started they stopped, went up on a hill and watched the whole thing. They didn't get into action at all. The Japanese had the place all zeroed in —they had been there a number of years—and they had snipers all over the place. A Chinese kid was in front of me behind sort of a stone wall and he raised his head up to see what was going on and he was shot right between the eyes. Roy was next to me, fired, and the bullet ricoched across the stock of his gun. Then later on Roy got it. We pulled back to the Buddha temple. A funny thing came out of this when we made a shower out of bamboo and a can, the first shower the Chinese had ever seen. Yankee ingenuity. Dolezal (inaudible). All but 5 OGs were flown out. The 5 went to Pyong Yang then back to Kunming where the Chinese were fighting among themselves and running up and down the roads all night with machine guns.
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