Upon reaching the enemy line, reconnaissance troops were instructed to map out enemy positions. More often than not, troops would sketch them out. The highest priority targets for reconnaissance to mark were machine gun nests and mortar positions. After observation, reconnaissance troops would make their way back to their observation posts. Scouts carrying important position information were urged to take the safest way back to friendly territory, so as not to engage the enemy and potentially lose the information. Then, if possible, the most important findings would be immediately radioed back to command.
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| - Upon reaching the enemy line, reconnaissance troops were instructed to map out enemy positions. More often than not, troops would sketch them out. The highest priority targets for reconnaissance to mark were machine gun nests and mortar positions. After observation, reconnaissance troops would make their way back to their observation posts. Scouts carrying important position information were urged to take the safest way back to friendly territory, so as not to engage the enemy and potentially lose the information. Then, if possible, the most important findings would be immediately radioed back to command.
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| - Regimental to Squad-based tactics
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| - Japanese troops patrolling Allied lines
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| - Determine enemy positions and harass enemy rear areas
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| - Upon reaching the enemy line, reconnaissance troops were instructed to map out enemy positions. More often than not, troops would sketch them out. The highest priority targets for reconnaissance to mark were machine gun nests and mortar positions. After observation, reconnaissance troops would make their way back to their observation posts. Scouts carrying important position information were urged to take the safest way back to friendly territory, so as not to engage the enemy and potentially lose the information. Then, if possible, the most important findings would be immediately radioed back to command. In order to ascertain enemy positions, a common tactic used by Japanese scouts was to speak aloud in the language of the enemy. In Burma for example, scouts would declare "Don't Shoot! We are ----. Where are you?", in various languages including Bengali, Urdu, and English. Allied troops on the front lines promptly learned of certain words and phrases in the English language that were very difficult and nigh impossible for many Japanese troops to pronounce correctly, thus creating a working friend or foe system of identification by requesting said troops to say chosen codewords. Japanese scouts were also known to harass enemy positions by purposefully generating noise, throwing firecrackers, shouting, and firing from unexpected positions in an attempt to get Allied soldiers to reveal their positions by returning fire, though this type of harassment was generally more effective on green troops than it was experienced soldiers. As noted by Allied military leaders, perhaps one of the more critical aspects of what made the reconnaissance tactics utilized by the Japanese effective was the tenacity and dedication of the Japanese soldiers executing them. Japanese soldiers were known to crawl for miles through inhospitable terrain to infiltrate Allied lines to either map out Allied positions from an observation position or prepare an ambush.
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