Scorched Earth, Black Snow by Andrew Salmon

Author:Andrew Salmon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845137304
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

* For the day’s work, Butler won a US Silver Star; Denness, an MC.

* Murray was awarded the George Medal for his actions that night.

* The jeep was later shipped to Australia. It is still used on Anzac Day parades.

* Stafford received the US Silver Star for this action. In fact, the tank was, according to Len Opie and 3 RAR’s War Diary, abandoned at the time.

* Was it an SPG? Most accounts agree that it was, but Gallaway is convinced it was a drop-short US mortar that had been firing in the vicinity earlier. ‘I watched the thing explode, and it was black powder, like a mortar,’ he said. ‘I know what I saw.’

* Although both Man and Neilson received DSOs for the Naktong Crossing battles, Green received no British award. Given the performance of 3 RAR, it seems odd that he was not granted a bar to the DSO he already held. Some Diggers are bitter about this to this day, though it should be added that a number of British soldiers complain that 27th Brigade’s awards for the campaign were parsimonious.

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