One of the first people to witness, at least in an american uniform, one of these bonside charges is quoted in bill sloane's book undefeated. He was a battalion ander nam lieutenant colonel philip fry, and he saw one of these attacks on january tenth. The same day that mc arthur was touring the battle ground that we mentioned earlier, you know, standing up when the planes were dropping bombs near by. And sloane quotes fry as describing this first bons i charge he witnessed. It was slaughter. Even now, i can't understand why the japs launched an attack of this kind against modern weapons. My only explanation is that they