European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly August 1945 thirty two Salt River Valley tribes were represented in the and nearly As Many in f frenchy was on Hill explained Tony a Veteran f company Indian who served a hitch with the Alamo when an order came to pull somehow frenchy didst get the he stayed there and killed 30 or maybe 40 i forget the brass and everybody else pounded French on the but he was whenever French got drunk hed Wail and moan and beat his and feel bad because no one had the common Courtesy to Tell him to pull the hell Back off the it was at Sari that the 147th Field battalion gained the admiration of the Bush master and it has never the 147th was a National guard outfit from North Dakota which had joined the 158th act a few months the artillerymen kept hop Ping their guns around the they were never sure whether the japs would attack from the or the but they were sure there would be an this was particularly embarrassing since the infantry spare men for perimeter there was Seldom any perimeter at but the Artil Lery kept on shooting and that was enough for the the Bushmaster held off the Jap pacer move ment from the rapidly building base on Wake when they were it was by a full compared with Noem foor was a the 158th hopped there after a few Days of Landing on july the japs were apparently service troops and they turned out to be Plain Damn in the next couple of months about of their dead were against seven Bushmaster Bill Hardy killed 75 japs during one Banzai charge on Slaughter even though there was an uncomfortable pause in his firing while his fellow townsman from Tony adjusted the head space of his the Bushmaster had another reason for not disliking the Coral on the Island produced very Little they did not have much to Cut in the six months they were for several Days after the Landing at lingayen Gulf Early last january the men said Here comes the Luzon or Lookout for the flying freight they spent a Good Deal of their time wit their faces in the Artil Lery experts figured out that the japs were fir ing two 12inch howitzers from the Hills some where Between Damoris and the Bush masters were sent after the they got the but they paid a High the 158th made a dry Landing on it was above san they had swung in to form the left flank in the push up the by saturday night a Road Block had been established at Damoris and the Bush masters were ready to turn East after the big the 1st battalion began a sprint up the Road at 0800 the next they would have to average an hour to make their scheduled attack behind an air strike and artillery they stuck to the Road and hoped for the when the first platoon of a acting As the had penetrated Halfway through a pass Between red and Blue about a mile and half East of a nervous Jap set off a land their trap sprung the rest of the japs on the ridges Cut Loose with artillery and mortars and everything else they the men already through the pass fought hopelessly for a tragically Brief time with their rifles and the rest of a company hit the after a c company came up under the withering fire and the two companies tried to they made several but they even get the order to pull Back finally came the chemical mortars Laid a smoke screen Over the but the Jap guns were zeroed to the men of the 1st that Day is known As bloody out of bloody sunday came stories like that of William Renner of he was one of the Point men on the inner Side of the he was hit in the Back of the head and knocked out Early in the when he came the Only thing resembling action in Panama was a pitched Bee Garden Battle in r he heard someone calling for it was James Browning of the platoon Renner found that he had lost his he picked his Way on hands and Knees to who said he had a Good Deal of pain that might be lessened if his legs were straightened Renner groped around blindly and found Brownings legs and straightened he heard a step behind him just then and before he could a Bayonet had been thrust into his the Point came out through when he regained consciousness the second Renner could see it was a flight by he had dived off the Road at the Start of the but it was night and he find the Road he crawled in what he hoped was the direction of at one Point he blew up a flotation bladder and swam a he found a Telephone wire and followed when he thought he was close to the perimeter he began to shout and pretty soon somebody heard him and Renner made himself the Bushmaster took red and Blue ridges and ridges beyond these they had to fight for them Yard by it sometimes took a company of men More than a whole Day to get one of the conical finally they captured one of the howitzer to which was pretty Well bombed g company threw a perimeter around the emplacement for the nobody knew exactly where the other 12incher was until suddenly it started shooting Over g company from a distance of about 300 getting in a few last licks at the s Page 4 every piece of american artillery and every mortar within Range opened next morning g company found a hateful of mortar fins in the gun one Shell had made a Damag ing hit and the others had killed part of the Crew and driven off the the Bushmaster spent a couple of weeks at they Cut Bamboo Camp All that time but before they could get it established they were in they Tore past Down past Lake Taal and the Volcano in the hurrying to strike the japs in Batangas after a Little More than three weeks of Hill they holed up in Lemery and right away there was talk about the 158th building another Days said Leonard we were on assault boats and we we rent going on a Joy when the japs set up 5inch guns for defense of Legaspi at the tip of Biol Peninsula on Southern they placed them in a Way that covered the exact spot where they them selves had landed in when the Bushmaster came in on april they landed a Little farther up the a circumstance for which the japs had made no but the Bushmaster were far too experienced to be made optimistic by a dry Back from the narrow coastal Plain Are tall razorback ridges whose washboard slopes Are covered thickly with banana the Section of Hills immediately beyond the around Baraga was called Little Bataan by the in 14 Days on Little Battan the 2d battalion lost 140 All of the battalions line officers and 20 per their replacements were the japs had Little twin 25mm Tackack and 75mm Tackack besides artillery and plenty of mortars and machine worst of to the men pushing through the banana the japs were invisible at 10 feet and sometimes one evening a Batch of mostly 18and 19year came to the 2d the battalion commander lined them up and gave them a Little he told them about the provisional service unit that was Al ready holding one Side of a perimeter up the Road and How Cooks and Bakers and typists were on the Way things they have to get the Best nights sleep they could Rind then go up the Hill in the next Day f company ran into trouble and was pinned the old men and the kids dug in the Best they could on one of the and they Lay in their shallow holes while the japs tossed grenades at it was too much for the they Tensed up and sweated and their clothes got As wet As if they had been dragged through a when the company was relieved about 90 per cent of the kids were Shock most of them returned to during most of that same period the 3d Bat Talion was having probably the roughest go of its career at Catuiran Hill near cat i Nan had so Many All that eventually almost every company in the regiment was on one or another of sometimes we held perimeters 15 feet from the says Louis and what perimeters on some of those Hogback ridges our Foxholes were a foot apart what was left of spent As much As two or three weeks on a perimeter you could come close to spitting from is a member of l company which was pinned Down for 52 hours on one of the All the records claimed by the Bushmaster dont have a direct connection with they think their outfits infantry noncom get busted faster than those in any other outfit in the army or maybe any other the great exponent of the fast and originator of the Bushmaster favorite is Erie the regiment the colonel is a powerfully built old army sol Over six feet tall in his socks and his helmet rests on his head like a Skull Hes pleased with the that the men have Hung on whenever he disapproves severely of some thing an enlisted Man has done or is the colonel walks up to him and says in his foghorn voice i know your what is your name and company
