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Title : They Cut Off His Ear — 36 Minutes Later, 41 Japanese Soldiers Were Dead


Summary : Before dawn on May 11, 1945, an isolated American outpost near Dingalan Bay, Luzon, was silently surrounded by Japanese troops preparing a coordinated night assault. What followed should have been a massacre. Instead, it became one of the most extraordinary single-man defenses of the Pacific War.

Private John McKini was asleep in his tent when a Japanese soldier slashed at him with a sword. Bleeding and disoriented, McKini fought back on instinct—killing the attacker with the butt of his rifle. Moments later, he realized the perimeter was collapsing. The outpost’s machine-gun position—the key to the entire defense—had been overrun.

McKini ran straight into the captured position and fought at point-blank range, killing the enemy soldiers inside before they could turn the weapon on his unit. When the gun was destroyed, he stayed, alone, facing wave after wave of attackers emerging from the jungle.

For more than half an hour, McKini fought continuously—changing positions, scavenging ammunition from the dead, throwing captured grenades, and counter-attacking whenever the enemy tried to flank the camp. Wounded, exhausted, and isolated, he refused to retreat. Each assault broke apart under precise rifle fire and brutal close-quarters combat.

When reinforcements finally arrived at first light, the ground in front of the position was littered with enemy dead. The outpost had held. Nearly forty Japanese soldiers lay fallen where one private had stood alone.

McKini never sought recognition. He returned home quietly after the war. But on that morning in the jungle, his instinct, movement, and refusal to yield saved an entire company—and turned a certain defeat into survival.

This is not a story about numbers.
It is a story about resolve, instinct, and what happens when one man refuses to break.




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