War Stories by Lamar Underwood

Author:Lamar Underwood [Underwood, Lamar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Those were the first assaults on Sugar Loaf Hill, as it would be christened two days later (when Lieutenant Colonel Woodhouse would call it by a name he’d used for objectives during training exercises on Guadalcanal). No more were made that day, for the battalion commander, now aware that the objective was far more difficult than originally believed, withdrew G Company and called for air strikes. Starting the next day, the sequence of attacks became so confused, with so many Americans cut off from their units, that it was impossible to keep track of who reached the summit before he fell.

Besides, holes from both sides’ shelling were so large that men who crouched in them couldn’t see members of other units yards away. What was known for certain was that five of De Mar’s 3rd Platoon were killed and ten wounded on May 12, a casualty rate of 50 percent. Other platoons lost even more men. On May 14, G Company’s three rifle platoons with their machine-gun sections had to be consolidated into a single platoon— whose lieutenant would be killed that night. Sustained losses like this would quickly prostrate the 6th Division.

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