Post by peterd on May 4, 2013 14:06:00 GMT -8
Commissioned in battle: A combat infantryman in the Pacific, WWII
Last Day
My last day as an active warrior began in a rainsoaked foxhole on Hill 860 near the Ipo Dam, about twenty-five miles northeast of Manila on the Angat River on Luzon in the Philippines.
It was May 15, 1945, the ninth day of the Ipo Dam offensive and my ninetieth as a battlefield commissioned rifle platoon leader in the 103d Infantry Regiment of the 43d Division.
www.military1.com/all/article/402003-commissioned-in-battle-a-combat-infantryman-in-the-pacific-wwii
Last Day
My last day as an active warrior began in a rainsoaked foxhole on Hill 860 near the Ipo Dam, about twenty-five miles northeast of Manila on the Angat River on Luzon in the Philippines.
It was May 15, 1945, the ninth day of the Ipo Dam offensive and my ninetieth as a battlefield commissioned rifle platoon leader in the 103d Infantry Regiment of the 43d Division.
www.military1.com/all/article/402003-commissioned-in-battle-a-combat-infantryman-in-the-pacific-wwii