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Number 9...(Cm t inued I rom page 1 )before thev could fire a shot.Time lo (In!A 1 azooka ri? ■ ed through the tank house and destroyed four tanks.**•t 't •} * vOtAlltOther rangers sprang! buildings where rdost of * he pn-I soners were just starting to go tobed 1 hey ye! led We a; e y mkget the hell to the mam gat*1 - nthe double. *Other Rangers dart«picking up stretcher cases t n Their backs and dashing through the I compound across the rlt; ad . • ‘ t:»* field and racing back for more. Dove and his men relay ed them across the field as fast as they could go into the thicket.The best the Japanese could d -, was to throw a couple of mlt; rtars from a nearby emplacement into the compound. These killed lt;• e , scout and wounded a medical officer. Two others were hit by Javanese machine gun or rifle bullets.The withdrawal was sudden as the attack. But before it had gone far a heavy concentration of Japanese from the north attacked. The guerrillas let them comeclose anti then fired, piling upJapanese in heaps. The first wave of Japanese infantry was followedby tanks. The guerrillas had .weapons with which to meet them. They were pinned down but killed nearly MOO Japanese at i loss oi 23 guerrillas killed before withdrawing.Guerrillas 'saved WithdrawalThis Japanese force then tried to intercept the fugitives But ’hegallant stand of the guerrillas ha-1given the Rangers era nigh cl at *e\i:*tnu.•«*start. Leading and carrying their charges they reached a road tw . miles away where carabao andW carts with native drivers awaited.le The stealthy night trek along i- the road with overcrow ied carts Id was eased as other carts and atu-1- mals were acquired at small townsalong the was.'(1 The worst of all for Mucci wa ly a one mile stretch of the RizaLro road. Mucci knew there were id several thousand Japanese sol-n diers only a short distance aw ay But the caravan got ever thm an risky leg of retreat without deed tection and at dawn reached Sidul where they were met by a motor’s- ized party.eg At the end of the .jouiney r.m-a- gets and Filipinos were guiding 51 carabao and carts and helping nd other prisoners as best they could, he Mucci strode up and down with or the column all night spurring it *»r on with. “All right men. ust threesh. kilometers more, just three more ’tal At length the prisoners them-le- selves wked when they mu theof colt i el ‘ Here clt; 1 ! m ee kfor more.*’in
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1945
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