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are most. vivid and detailed ac count yet given Trojans of the, heroic deeds of the ten of the | 11th Division which includes Troy's | Mth Infintry, during the bloody | battle. for Saipan, was related by | Maj. Kenneth J. Dolan of Water-: whel, veteran of the fray, at a meeting of Troy Post, with Dixis tan Veterans’ Association at the Troy Amory Monday. night. _ Paying repeated tribute to the s tedying courage. ¢ Rive and dogued determination of the so- : Siers of the Sith, Major Dotan lined the entire tactical sitee of Saipan, desvisbed in derstt ite repeated acts of heroism of mum bers of the division and denied oeey equivocably the intimations ‘con tained in at anticle in a national, hews magesie a few months ago to the effect that the men of the division lacked custidence in their rs, froze in their foxbates and j eached courage. AWlajor Dolan emphasized that white, the Banra? attack hurled to the Japs at the American Hes, on July 7 was absorbed by Uberdtb | Infantry, and while the regiment's front lines were penetrated in this attack, at no time did the Japs ever break through the regimen tal area. “Rightfully Froud. “The men of the 2d Division + can today be rightfully proud in! Unat they--each one individually— helped make possible the air base at Saipan from which our Super fortresses bombed and will contin ue to bomb Tayo. In his story of the actual operation, Major Dolan began: “We embarked aboard ships and got ‘under way for the Alumanss. My first glimpse of Saipan’ oc curred at daybreak on the morn ing of June 16, when we arrived of the northwest coast, AN that day we watched the Navy shell the island and ‘the dive bombers plant their eggs. Later that night, the first elements of the division began their disembarking. On the morning of the 1oth, I received or ders to go ashore with Lieut. Col.
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Troy Record
Troy, New York, US
Wed, Dec 06, 1944
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