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Pfc. Arthur Kuehn ' Busy Fighting JapiWITH THE 40th INFANTRY DI* VISION IN THE PHILIPPINES—It was Friday the 13th in northern Negros^ of the Philippines, when at 2:00 a. m. hand grenades, mortar shells and bullets showered over jpid around the fox-holes of Pfc. Oscar G.Cooksey, son of Mrs. G. C. Cooksey,if *Alva, Ky.; and Pfc. Arthur G. Kuehn, son of Mrs. Applonia Kuehn, Rt. 2, Waunakee, Wisconsin.Japs attempted to force the lines of these Anti-tank veterans of the 186th Regiment, 40th Infantry Division.I They passed right by the two Yanks and then were driven back.“We were right in the middle of two I fires all night,” said the two.I After mortar shells had landed on 1 the foot path next to their fox-hole, hand granades had dropped in the ad-I joining fox-hole, and bullets cut branches on bushes above their heads, the I two doughboys learned they had spent the night in an old Jap Command Post, “We heard chatter all night, and lights flashed/' said Cooksey.I “Just trying to draw our fire and I expose our position,” added Kuehn.During one attack a hit Jap shouted Jin perfect English, ‘^You’ll get it I back.”I “We are still waiting and will wait I in vain for that statement to come I true,” say these two. “In the meantime we keep dishing it out in big |do8es to an unpleasant enemy.”I These expert demolitions and heavy I weapons infantrymen are veterans of New Britain, Panay, Luzon and now I Negros.
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Waunakee Tribune
Waunakee, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 17, 1945
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