Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-01-06

dick and went singing out over
the water. This decided him. We
moved UP the beach about so
yards and stumbled right into a
camp that was completed blacked
out. The men were having coffee.
1t tasted delicious. The major In
charge Of the camp told us we
could bed down for t h night
whenever we could find a clear
space of ground near aslit trench.
The colored enlisted men went
down on the beach TO dig their
own holes.
NO SLEEP ALL NIGHT
"But there W a no sleep all
night.
Right after breakfast, five ia
panese planes attacked the con-
voy. One of the planes, hit by
flax, went out of control a n d
landed on the deck of a nearby
Jagged inward and we saw his
arm fly back and forward.
There was a binding flash as
he hurled the hand grenade into
dump of over 200 boxes con-
tanning los and 155 howitzer
shells 40 and 80 nm. shells. The
Jap could not have survived the
explosion. The blast from the first
box of ammunition blew the cor
respondents shirt off as if it were
tissue paper. Then it really start
ed.
HORROR OF WAITING
There would be the d D.
throated crackie of Comm. ann
spangle the sky in all directions.
munition and t r r would
The resounding bank of 40 NM
shells the roar of los howitzer
shells the earth-shaking crash of
the 1855 turned the night into a
horror of waiting so feet away,
of wondering whether too much
ammunition was going to blow up
But the small stuff kept going off
in SalvooS while the big shells
seemed to go off one at time. We
dug our faces into the mud and
prayed. And how we prayed
, Near the correspondent colOred
youth was mrmbling the Lords
Prayer. We all ran the gamut of
every religious plea We had never
learnedd."
It was not all prayer and de-
fensiye fighting, however. The
next day on other occasions, the
duck drivers paid off the laps for
that night. o n such occasion
arose when Macauley was writing
his dispatch on the ruined varan-
da of the town grammar school
In Palo. This shed was used as
the assembling place for the duck
drivers In carrying their ammu>
milton UP to the front.
Groups or doughboys from tlfs
/ unit are patroling the village
streets and searching every house
as often as possible. A Jap runs
right across In front of the cors-
respondent with a party of yell
ing Yanks In pursuit. One of the
colored duck drivers, IT'S Pedro
Croughter, u n alongside the
Nip and puts three carbine bull
let's In him. Before five Jap has
been on the ground three seconds
he Is riddled with tommy gun NJ
| and calbine shells. Later the
Filipinos flushed another soldier
of the Emperor from under a
house. American rifle fire killed
him"
In concluding his account
Of the units operations, Macau-
ley wrote:
Those negroes had stood like
the Rock of Gibraltar-Cpl. James
Brown. 1915 N. Caroline St. Bal
timore, Md; Sgt. OSuah Aceptin
l42 Ashton ST., Los Angeles, Cal;
Pfc. Lillean F.. Carter, Farming
dale, N. j.; Cpl. Kali Malone,
FAST Delaware ST., Gary, Ind,
Cpl. James A. Johnson, 81 Plains
field Ave; Scotch Plains, N. j.:
Cpl. Jos. c. Williamson, Jackson.
Miss; Cpl. Eminir B. Hawkins,
l405 Nortll 18th st. Philadelphia,
Pa; Cpl. James A. Ross. Sc Ken
ilworth ST., Orange, N. j.; Pfc.
Jas. Williams, Baton Rouge, La;
Cpl. Karrie Davis, Route 2, Box
So, Vamyille, S. .: Cpl. zacha-
riah Brinkley, IA Reid st. Eli
zabeth. N. j.; Cpl. Paul Wright
2217 East 10th St. Cleveland, O.:
Cpl. Jas. S. Wells, Ill North 37th
St, Philadelphia, Pa; Cpl. Pedro
Croughter. 40 Veronica Place,