| Show Radio Story Of leyte Battle By Sanpete Soldier From somewhere in ill the Central Pacific at 11 p p. p m. m Monday night the voice clear and strong of ot Sergeant Floyd Floyd L L. L Del DeMIll was heard over radio station K IC O. O A. A Denver telling of some o ot of his part partin in the invasion of Leyte on October er 1 27 1944 Floyd together with Second Arthur were werl selected to report an eye witness I account o of what was done by byj byI j I their unit a Marine Corp Communications Com Coro- Communications CoroI detachment of 27 men I who landed on Leyte beach with the wave of U. U S S. S troops about U hour hear after first landing in spite of Jap snipers and machine gunners shooting at th them m all the tho time they made their way to the front lines to pick out Jap targets for areial areal bombing and with portable portable port port- able abl radio reported the location to toI I I a carrier back in the tho bay fromi froma from I a where here planes came up and caught Ithe the Japs in a canefield soon af- af af af- 1400 dead Japs were counted here and those escaping fled down a long slope to the south where more dead were I found that day I The next morning Floyd and the i started back to the beach i I about S miles in an tractor tractor or half truck where they thoy were ambushed by Jap machine gunners in four houses near the the goad road These were soon cleaned up when whon a land mine took one I track of the so they I camped there Inside it all night with Japs all around them Next morning morning another tank came out outI I for for them and they transferred to toI lit I it under heavy Y fire and then tried to blow up the disabled one wIthout without without with- with out out success so th they y left it and the j I Japs used it for a fort until the nest nett day when they came back I and and blew it up Floyds Floyd's voice came in strong and 1 clear and expressed appreciation of the op opportunity he Is having to learn and serve no orI or I complaints of any kind Just two I young young Americans modestly telling I how It it happened At the disabled i jed I ed vehicle Floyd said the got 4 Japs with his Tomm Tommy gun I and one with his pistol while he hd got 4 with his carbine but they had no no noway way of counting how many many they got with machine guns Floyd Is the son of Mr and and Mrs Floyd Del DeMill of Ephraim and the grandson of Mrs Roe DeMill DeMill De- De Mill l of Manti Contributed |
