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Show Myton Soldier Watches Chinese Units Turn Guns On Each Other !n Confusion After his company had cap-' tured a hill in Korea, a Myton soldier sat on the newly-gained! objective and watched two fore- i es of confused Chinese turn their guns on each other. Pfc. Stanley C. Jenson, 26,1 son of James W. Jenson. of Myton, My-ton, and members of his unit' watched the melee after they had driven Communist defenders defend-ers from Hill 380. Pfc. Jenson is a rifleman in Company K, 5th Cavalry Regiment. To take the stubbornly defended de-fended hill, Pfc. Jenson's company com-pany attacked against a barrage bar-rage of hostile artillery, mortar and small arms fire after the hill had been raked by United Nations Na-tions fighter planes. After tenaciously resisting the attack in their deep entrenchments, entrench-ments, the Chinese finally abandoned their fortifications at dusk and withdrew down the reverse slope of the hill, dragging drag-ging their wounded and leaving their dead.' As Pfc. Jenson and his companions com-panions consolidated the positions posi-tions atop the hill, they observed observ-ed a force of Chinese at the reverse re-verse base. The enemy retreat- ing down the hill thought those at the bottom were United Nations Na-tions forces and opened fire. Those at the foot of the hill, assuming they were being attacked at-tacked by Americans, returned the fire A violent battle raged between the two confused groups for more than 20 minutes min-utes and resulted in numerous casualties for the Chinese before they realized they were killing their own men. |