Marine corps veteran tom jones, as quoted in the book the things our fathers saw. He was at the battle of the tanaroo or alligator creek, or what have you. The next morning we counted something like 600 dead japs. Many wounded japanese took hand grenades, armed them and then held them to their heads. This type of behavior was incomprehensible to a marine. But far worse, he writes, several of the wounded tried to kill marines who were attempting to take prisoners.