It was early morning on 11 December before the Japanese caught up with the 1/14th Punjabs at their next ambush position.
The Japanese ambush position was located south of the trail junction.
The Australian patrol occupied its intended ambush position early the next morning and proceeded to wait.
The Australians then withdrew, calling in a defensive fire artillery mission onto the abandoned ambush position in order to allow them to break contact.
The nationalist fighters retreated into a defensive ambush position on the banks, beneath the roots of some overhanging trees.
As aerial reconnaissance had shown well entrenched ambush positions set up along the way, the air strikes from squadrons of Tempests were called in.
So our early morning ambush positions were thoroughly surveyed in daylight by leaders who did so from a squatting position.
Concealed in well-camouflaged ambush positions however, the communists inflicted a number of casualties on the Americans.
I wonder how the other ambush positions are doing and crawl over to Nail to help him with the radio.
Meanwhile, the Chinese had set up numerous ambush positions on the ridges overlooking the Onjong-Pukchin road.