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Shipmate Tells of ofGuadalcanal ofGuadalcanal r - Guadalcanal GuadalcanalBattles Battles in PacificMrs Pacific Mrs Zina Howard recently recelved re received recetved ceived cetved a letter from Bill BU1 Oration-a Oration a Orahama Grahama Oraham Graham - a shipmate shipmat shipma'e shipmae ' of her son Milton Mllton for forj forthe forthe to j the past nineteen months with ai an aneec atciuni a eec ( ( ' HInt nint of the Guadalcanal Ouadalcanal luadalcanal ( campaign earn cam earnpalgn campaign 1 palgn paign and other major Pacific PacU1c engaRcments en engagl'ments engagements gagl'ments gaglments gagements ' he and Milton witnes witnessod witnessed sod ' ! ed edYoung sodYoung Young Searle Scarle t " ; > arle n ii JW > w twenty yearId years yearsI g ' (1 1 I ( Id 1 < f'nlL fnlL ' enlisted , > tf > d In the navy after com corn corn1 comJ cornI J I letlne letln leting ! { ; his hi ' ! sophomore year at thUli the theUII theUli UII Uli tah High HIRh School a year before be beforp before forp fore the declaration df'Claratlon dfClaratlon ' of war Hehias Hlia-s Hlia s He HehI hI\- hI hias hIbeen \ - - ' > been In active ovpr overseas a , > service servicewith servicewith servicwith with the marine medical corps foa for fox fora foxa a year Yf > ur and during that time hascontracted hacontracted has hascontracted contracted malaria three times timesI timesMr timesMr I Mr Graham Oraham says say'l sayl ' Milton anT and andT andI j T I left the t1w sta-fes sta fes states "t t " ! - f " July 1 1942 from fromI fromg _ g " ' < n Diego We went to a place litlie in inthe intile I the tile longa Ionga Islands We stayed there therefor therefor ther ? for fhe fise days We made practice , ' Jandin landing on another AU Aupist August lI , > t 1 ' 1 hese hlt ' ' ! ' were the mos1 most mostI A I eauttful eautlful cautiful . Islands L.olands Lolands Lslands ; In the PacUlc Pacific PacUlcThe PacificThe PacificThe , The fruit grows wild and Is plent plenti plentiftil plentifdl ! ful ftil Here we found long bananas bananas15 bananasl.s bananasis l.s ls is . long lonR as aB your fore arm and pink pinkgrapefruit pinkgrapefruit pinlgrapefrult grapefruit as big as wash waBh bucketsOf bucketsOf buckets bucketsOf , Of cour course , > p you heard of our ourI oui1 I } istoric 1'Ilorlc 1Ilorlc ' landing on August ' 7 7 1942 1942Milton 1942Milton 1942Milton , Milton and I were with a comp compOY compally compiny \OY OY ally ' \ of marines marint ' ' > that were th the very veryflr veryfirst ver3first ' flr first , > t to set fo foot t on the SolomonIslands Solomon SolomonIslands SolomorIslands SolomorIslandsThere Islands IslandsThere There were about 100 of us We Welanded Welanded W Wlanded < landed on Florida Island and that thatafternoon thatafternoon thaiafternoon afternoon went to another point pointto pointto pom pomto * < to reinforce the marine paratroop paratroop- paratroopers paratroopera paratroop'ers - - 'ers ers ers era That Thai Is where we encounfcerec encountered encounteredur , < ( ur first t1rst fire and It was reaDy really reaDyheavy reallyheavy realliheavy heavy however we tried to mak make makea maka < a landing on an Island that nightand night nightOd nightfind \Od Od and , \ wen wert were > * thrown back with a lot lotof lotof loof ( of bovs boys killed and four wOWlded wounded wOWldedIn woundedIn woundedIn In MUt Milt a s ' ! boat there were four ldl- ldl ku- ku ldlIt'd kuled kil killed - - led It'd Itd ' and I don t know how many manywoundf'd manywounded maniwounded woundf'd woundfd wounded ' All together we lost lostabout lostabout lostabout about 150 mf men > n In two days fight fight- fighting fightlog fighting - - ing log We captured capturl"d capturld " the Island t t1aen t1aenstarved therstarved en enstarvl'd starvl'd starvld starved ' for a month on another anotherContinued another'Continued anolhel'Continued anolhelContinued Continued 'Continued ' ' ( on page &ge ge & five ) - - - Shipmate of Milton Searle SearleTells SearleTells Tells of Guadalcanal GuadalcanalBattles GuadalcanalBattles Battles In South PacificContinued Pacific PacificContinued ( Continued from . pftfre PAfe page ! one oneisland ) Island Our food foot was thrown thrownoverboard thrownoverboard thrownoverboard overboard ' so 10 they thlY thy ( could get ( ct ( cut ( ut utIn utIn ! In a hurryWe hurry u u7nt 7nt We went to Ouadalrai OuadalcaI Guadalcan al In Inand inOctober inOctober ' October and suffered uHert d > rnany many ni m me ( ( rekilled re rekllled rekilled kllled killed and a lot more hnnl hardshipsYes hardships hardshipsYes hlp'l hlpl hlp'lYt.8 ' Yes Yt.8 Yt8 ' . I was still tlll In New N'w Nw ! ' Zealand Zealandwhen Zealandwhen Zealandwhen when Milt Mllt had phneuinonia phnt'umonla phntumonla phneumoniii ' He lie Heshould lieshould Heshould should be coming ; home swii SOOI soot Il asthey as | tlif thOf they ' are trying to evIL evac pva ( ' < ' latp latf late " all allmen allmen allmen men unfit , for c ( mbat mbnt moth duty That 'I I s ' 'Ihow show show how I fot got back to the < states itate'l itatel ' TikI Tike TikeIt TikeIt ' It from me Mrs Howaid HowlllC Hownid ! yo yolveot t i t1 \1 1 ie iegot \ ' got ( n a . . reni real man f r a sonMilt son sonMllt on onMiJt Mllt MiJt Milt ( n 1 . 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