Honor Before Glory by Scott McGaugh

Author:Scott McGaugh
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780306824463
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

GEORGE SAKATO AND KELLY KUWAYAMA WONDERED WHY THE 2/442’s Companies E and F were moving through units of the 141st on the extreme northern flank of the rescue mission. Why isn’t the rest of the 141st taking the point to rescue their own guys? A soldier in a foxhole and a medic climbing over mossy boulders could only speculate. At midafternoon Lieutenant Colonel Hanley was positioning the companies to ambush the Germans on Hill 617 from the north. He had to clear the hill if his battalion was to protect the 442nd’s left flank. The ambush was to be part of a renewed 442nd frontal attack at 1445. Kenji Ego and the rest of Company G, directly in front of the Germans, were a diversion and were paying a heavy price in casualties simply to hold the Germans’ attention.

So were others. Company K’s Jim Okubo had treated more wounded men by repeatedly running from sheltered positions into a blizzard of noise. Tree bursts pounded eardrums, automatic weapons spewed a staccato cough of death, shrapnel screamed through the air, bullets slammed into logs, squad leaders yelled, and men cried out as they writhed in the mud. At one point, a roadblock and enemy machine-gun fire pinned them to gullies and the back sides of trees until their artillery destroyed it, only one hundred yards in front of them. A short time later, the 100th endured a concentrated enemy artillery attack. By then the heavy clouds had again closed in on the forest, casting a dreary pall over the battlefield.

Scraping replaced the staccato sound of gunfire late in the afternoon, as another cold night loomed and a few snowflakes fluttered onto the battlefield. Some soldiers commandeered foxholes dug by Germans perhaps the day before or weeks earlier. Others started digging, preferably behind a tree for added protection from snipers. Some soldiers still had their shovels, others used a trenching knife, and few had only their hands and helmet.

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