Dan Poirier & Sam Phillips

The morning after the Battle of the Tenaru, the 1st Battalion came around, in an enveloping movement and practically annihilated all the survivors of the attack. Later, the few that were left took off. We lost only two guys. There were dead Japs everywhere, so many, they were bulldozed into a pit. It started to smell, it was hot. I remember the photograph the dead on the sandbar... yes, that was it was like. There were about six hundred dead japanese. At high tide the river there was waist deep, at low tide, ankle deep.This was our first action.