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To: Hurtgen; zot

Guadalcanal


33 posted on 08/07/2012 5:14:01 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. Very interesting.

In the 1970’s I worked in the Pentagon with a man named Del Burchfield who fired a 37 mm anti-tank gun all one night on Guadalcanal to hold off a counterattack. He and a .50 cal machine gunner were put in for the Congressional Medal of Honor, but didn’t receive it.


74 posted on 08/07/2012 10:40:04 AM PDT by zot
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