Bones of My Grandfather by Clay Bonnyman Evans

Author:Clay Bonnyman Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510730625
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Contrary to some later reports, my grandfather was never idle during the Battle of Tarawa.

Sometime during the day on November 21, Maj. George R.L. Cooper committed the sixty men under Bonnyman and Mosteller “to assault action.” But the after-action shore-party report written by Lt. Col. Chester A. Salazar, Sandy’s CO, does not give further details.20 However, when compared to Salazar’s report, my grandfather’s Medal of Honor citation seems to be in error when it states that he led a group armed with explosives and flamethrowers to destroy “several hostile installations before the close of D-day”21 (author’s emphasis); it may be that the citation got the action correct, but misreported the chronology.

Salazar’s report lays to rest frequent speculation that Sandy “abandoned” his shore-party duties without orders, as should nullify once and for all Joseph Alexander’s assertion that as a shore-party officer, he was “essentially out of a job for the first fifty hours or so.”22 Certainly photographer Obie Newcomb was impressed: “It seemed to me he was the busiest man in the whole battle of Tarawa.”23

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