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Show Utah National Guard Unit Cited By Ninth Corps Artillery Commander Copies of a General Order from the Ninth Corps Artillery in Korea Ko-rea have been received in Cedar City this week, in which men and officers of the 213th Ar- j mored Field Artillery battalion, composed of batteries of the southern L'tah National Guard, were cited for outstanding performance per-formance in battle on Mav 27 and 28. The "General Orders" by com mand of Brigadier General Gill-more, Gill-more, and signed by Major Robert Rob-ert C. Anderson, Artillery Adjutant, Adjut-ant, reads as follows: During the hours of darkness on 27 May 1951, north of Kap-yong, Kap-yong, Korea large numbers of well-armed Chinese suddenly opened fire at close range on Battery A of the 213th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. The artillerymen ar-tillerymen rallied to the attack fighting off the enemy with small arms in their gun positions, posi-tions, killing 100 and wounding 200 others. The surging attack swept to within twenty feet of the battalion switchboard. At first light, half the men of Battery "A" and a complement from Headquarters organized a combat patrol. Using one of their self-propelled guns as a tank, they drove three-quarters of a mile down the canyon in which their position was located, rak-j rak-j ins the surrounding heights with 'machine gun and small arms fire. During this action they overran over-ran machine guns concealed less I than forty yards from Battery ! "A's" position. ! The enemy, attempting to escape es-cape over the ridge, were halted by artillery fire using time fuse. The range was then shortened, drawing the fire back toward the gun positions, raking the enemy and causing unesttimat-ed unesttimat-ed casualties. J This outstanding example of aggressive and courageous action in the face of an unexpected enemy ene-my attack was responsible after eight hours of fighting, for breaking break-ing up the attack, inflicting hundreds hun-dreds of casualties and finally capturing 831 prisoners. It reflects re-flects high honor on the officers and men of the 213th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. i'e Note: At last word received ; from the 213th battalion the unit had moved into range of the enemy and taken position to start firing. They are stationed at Papo-ri northwest of Hwa- chon as of June 11. No mail has been received from the unit In X the past few days and no report I of activities is available this s week. |