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Engineers Fill 75 Percent Crater Under Fire at Okinawa Front
At Okinawa near Naha New York's 165th Fighting Irish with 102nd engineers led by Lieut Merle Wagaman faced heavy enemy fire while filling a crater. Pfc Felix Spiehler Sgt Anthony Novello and others aided wounded and widened the escape path as Alvarez found a way out. The effort lasted two hours before a second company completed the fill.
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Okinawa
Naha
New York
165Th
102Nd Engineers
Merle Wagaman
Sixth St
Burlington
Kan
Wagaman
Pfc
Felix Spieher
Marigny Street
New Orleans
Robert Markel
Johnstown
Louis Parsinger
New York City
Lou
Company C.0
Aaron Narvalansky
Douglass Street
Pittshureh
Steve Manuel
Brooksville
Fla
James Woods
Bremo Bluff
Clair E. Abbott
Amelia
Neb
Spiehler
Joe Richter
Port Washington Blvd
Port Washington
L. C
Cpl
Frank Alvarez
Waterman Ave
Fresno
Calif
Gene Holyer