Crisp County GaArchives News.....CORDELE MARINE KILLS JAOS ON GUAM ISLAND October 24, 1943
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CORDELE DISPATCH October 24, 1943
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
TWO MARINES ARMED ONLY WITH CARBINES,KILLED THREE JAPS AND PINNED DOWN THREE 
OTHERS UNTIL A MARINE PATROL COULD COME TO THEIR AID ON GUAM.
THE MARINES, PRIVATES FIRST CLASS ELZIE R. FOLDS,18,302 11TH AVE,CORDELE,GA., 
AND HENRY M. BAKER,19, 1105 DOUGLAS AVE ,LAS VEGAS,N.M. WERE AN OUTPOST NEAR 
OLD CHAMORRO COW TRAIL WHEN A NATIVE TOLD THEM THAT SIX JAPS WERE HIDING IN A 
NEARBY FIELD.
THE MARINES CREPT TO THE AREA ,PFC. FOLDS SPOTTED WHAT LOOKED LIKE AN OLD 
BUNDLE OF CLOTHES LYING BESIDE A CLUMP OF BRUSH.AS HE APROACHED RAISED HIS 
HEAD FROM A CLUMP OF BRUSH BRUSH ,THE BUNDLE MOVED.THEN HE SAW IT WAS A 
JAP.THE JAP REACHED INTO HIS PACK FOR A GRENADE. THE MARINE SHOT HIM.A SECOND 
JAP RAISED HIS HEAD FROM A CLUMP OF BRUSH. MARINE FOLDS KILLED HIM TOO.
THE FOUR SURVIVING JAPS TRIED TO ESCAPE.PFC. BAKER SAW THEM MOVING IN THE TALL 
GRASS, HE FIRED, PINNING THEM DOWN .WHEN HE RANOUT OF AMMUNATION,HE PICKED UP 
A RUSTED RIFLE WHICH LAY BESIDE PF A DEAD JAP,BUT IT REFUSED TO FIRE.THE JAPS 
TRIED TO ESCAPE AGAIN BUT MARINE FOLDS TOOK UP THE FIRING.WHEN THE JAPS WERE 
FORCED DOWN AGAIN MARINE FOLDS THREW A GRENADE WHICH HE HAD FOUND ON A DEAD 
JAP.IT EXPLODED NEAR THE ENEMY KILLING ONE AND WOUNDING THE OTHERS.
  WITH ONLY ONE CLIP OF AMMUNATION PFC. FOLDS HELD DOWN THE REMAINING THREE 
JAPS UNTIL A MARINE PATROL ATTRACTED BY THE FIRING,FLANKED THE JAP POSITION 
AND KILLED THEM ALLAFTER THEY REFUSED TO SURRENDER.

Additional Comments:
PFC. ELZIE FOLDS WAS LATER KILLED.

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