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BHEY were clearing out flie Japs on Attu that morning in May. A bet. talon of Americans had landed. Within five hundred yards of shore, thd major in command was killed by a imper. Then Private Louis Drozinski went-fHfS* action.I f'w the sniper w!.i got him and pieked-Wi off, and another Jap in the' same dugout. I got permission to take *' machiMMun section around the flank. | found 90 later that we killed 21 Japs.I w shooting tracer bullets with a%rifle to guide the fire of the machine gunsj when four bullets hit me.I lay there until dork with bullets ting*, ing over my heed. I tried to make myself pass, out by holding my breatH to I wouldn’t-draw attention, but I couldn't.A couple of Yanks crawled up and carried we back about 100 yards. They left mo wrapped in a raincoat until the; next daySjphen stretcher bearers found* me. Thjpt wasJ27 hours after'Thaabe^m Hit. Jw^hls gal lantry in action he washe ,Pu;p(7freart^CviawarI
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 03, 1944
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