Some Japanese leftovers attacked a mess hall at dinner time,killing many and wounding more and the survivors came or were carried to his ship and he had to redirect them to the evacuation LST further down the line—the one that takes the wounded to the hospital ship anchored offshore.
He talked to some of the ANZACS among them and he told me that they had been fighting in the jungles for a long time and it was a shame to get all shot up now that the island was already taken.
Dad was pretty shaken at the sight of those messed up Aussies and New Zea landers.
Ooops,I meant 1943 and though the island was taken,more or less,some Japs still held out for another year up in the mountains.