 All of the companies in the battalions were under strength, as well as the battalions were under strength. And with the troops that were, the Marine troops in Philippines and our troops from Shanghai, we made a pretty sizable regiment. We got up to about a third battalion, the beginning of a third battalion. And so we went out into the field and we took our skiffy shirts off and we dyed them with coffee to make them less conspicuous hanging in the bushes where they ride them, you know. And we slept on the ground and lived up above the beaches and expecting that the Japanese might make landings there at Alangapu. They didn't choose to do that. They landed for the north.