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The following account was written by Godfrey Pegg and added to the archive by staff at the St. John's Centre, Hove, Sussex.

I would like to relate an incident during the latter part of the last war when the Japanese were held in the northern part of Burma. Our troops led by the third commando brigade were assaulting the coast and I was part of the follow up infantry. We dug ourselves in and faced a ferocious attack which continued throughout the night. By daylight we realized that the enemy had dug in adjacent to our trenches. It took us the whole day to eject them.

In the meantime I was returning to my unit from the landing craft and just missed being blown up by enemy artillery fire. On the third day the enemy retreated and left behind their dead. The Commando and our infantry then withdrew to prepare for our next objective further south down the coast.

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