He refused Slovik's request for reassignment and sent him to a rifle platoon.
They took 3 prisoners although most of the granaderos had withdrawn, along with two rifle platoons.
Within the companies, two company commanders committed their three rifle platoons.
On March 6, he was given command of Company E's third rifle platoon.
There were about forty men, armed with the basic ordnance of the rifle platoon.
The two independent rifle platoons, No.9 and No.11, were dropped quite accurately to the north.
Instead of pushing his rifle platoons further inland, however, Downs decided that he would wait for the second wave to arrive.
If it was a very eclectic rifle platoon.
The security element consists of one or more reinforced rifle platoons.
However, a rifle platoon began knocking out the Japanese gun positions one by one.