Corporal Ohara recalled, he himself ' wouldn't have lost my legs and fingers and half of the soldiers would have been alive, if we had had only one pair of gloves and socks to change.'
小原伍長自身も「もしあの時、予備の軍手、靴下の一組でも余計にあれば自分は足や指を失わなかっただろうし、半分の兵士が助かっただろう」と後年、供述している。