Cheney Gun Battery

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  Dana (guest)

  February 16th 1945, while paratroopers of the 503rd paratroop Infantry were landing on topside, "the area outside was swept by Japanese machine-gun fire. [and] 14...Japanese ran out of the Cheney Battery gun pit and, with bayonets, attacked the men lying on the ground." Excerpts authored by Edward M. Flanagan, Jr. WORLD WAR II Magazine, July 1988

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