Posted May 12, 2016 4:20 pm by Comments

By Pete M

Woodpecker Ridge - May 24, 1945

On May 24 1945, in oppressive Philippine heat, an American soldier sat behind a Browning 1917 water-cooled machine gun – smiling . That soldier, along with the rest of the US Army’s 38th Division “Cyclones”, for the months and years prior had seen some of the most brutal warfare in Pacific theater. On this day, […]

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