Hundreds of thousands of civilians on okanaua made it absolutely impossible to avoid hurting these people. Young civilians, including many boys and girls, had been conscripted to work on the tunnels and the air field. They have a calling them hitler youth is perhaps not rihe but they have sort of a militant youth organization that has boys 14 to 17 years old in it. Girls 14 to 17 year old, who are nurses, nursing students, get thrown into this, and everybody's going to take casualties.