Show li- li lid lincho M Gaus Cass a s I r OUR h Ni i ht I Iy Army Armi U May 23 A P S P-S cd c- c P- P d Lt Sec-Lt Richard Dick Christenson Christen Christen- son of or Mr and Mrs Irs Louis of ManU Manti Utah I noes mes a tossed carelessly poncho his sleepless night last ni night ht p was established In a 1 altoP aop op foxhole cost Dost h B st t. t James James Bolt of Anderson on c C C. C and Alfred of or troIt Michigan having just r roI roved ro- ro ro- ro I ved Capt Preston Lampion of I Y Ola and his crew from hour 48 str stretch of duty 1 Sf W Toward dusk the Infantry I said Christensen and I Ipe re felt feU might lonely up aP there thero Rut But some soldier tossed his rI J ri carelessly on ground LId the wind blew It over the Into th the view o of the Japs Jas ey knew we were there then d so all night long they blasted with mortar fire At Ai one point Bolt said Lets bets t tI tm I ve VB B to ta to another foxhole this on m too close close and and t the very i a t shell landed right where w wo wp e ed I I IN N d been sitting Iu u i Bolt a few nights earlier nar escaped death when a s shell eU killed an officer lying In Ine e same foxhole with them bt t Bolt remarked Corp John t I ehe he of Stillwater N. N Y 1 is is one HI 1111 I the finest a and most modest l 1 ken en in our our outfit fet Lt Col John T. T Marshall of Mass credited Christen l 7 n and his team of fighting men mer Ih nth knocking out a Japanese al 1 purpose gun We saw a bunch of Japs tryg try try- 1 g JT to move this gun out to a potion polon po- po lon tion to shoot Christensen said V e waited and finally about 30 Vps ps pt to work on the gun hat at is when we called to a batry batto bat bat- ry to let them have It t. t Bodies and debris flew every every- lere Our fire got so close to tamer fer guns that tine Hie Japs laid laida wn a smoke screen It lifted ft St enough to let us see this one onen min n lying on Its side In the morning we found that ere had been Japs In close us during the night nl g ht On a neary near near- y hill one soldier tossed 96 greone grew gre- gre w ales ades one after another another all all Ight long to keep keen them off Marshall arshall said Japanese artillery ire e has decreased markedly espe- espe ally Ily in recent days tWe We have accounted for a large umber of their guns Marshal In In the r and reas as Marshal Is proud to boast that thatis is t unit fired the first shore guns i the Okinawa campaign They petted ened up on Naha from Klese an Inma an Island to the west west west- n Saturday evening a row few Hours tore Easter morning when the Yanks landed on Okinawa In retaliation the l Japanese used s o shell Kiese heavily but only Inured in red four Americans One dud shell landed harmlessly Y t the feet of Coleman Hayes f Prescott Arizona V |