Seventh Infantry Division - Yearbook (South Korea)

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awww sound-powered phone and post himself to direct the patrol from a spot a few yards behind and above the AR man. The radioman was to remain with Lyons' assistant, O'Leary, on the northeast slope. As the two men started to return to their positions an automatic rifle burst ripped the silence. Automatic carbines on the north and northeast slope began chattering. Burp guns opened fire and grenades began exploding. Lyons screamed to O,Leary: Get 'em firing, O'Leary, get 'em firing. He raced over a knob and dropped to the ground. He could see dozens of burp gun muzzle blasts down the north and northeast slopes. Lyons esti- mated two Chinese platoons-about seventy men-were assaulting Jack, one from the front, another from the right flank. Lyons screamed for O'Leary to call the support but his aid was already halfway down the northeast slope, his carbine roaring in his hands. Lyons' voice was smoth- ered. Corporal Triano, realizing O'Leary could not hear Lyons, started back for Queen and the support squad. By now all Lyons' men, except Triano, were on the firing line. Play it cool and keep firing, Lyons yelled to his men, then he crept toward the west slope hoping possibly to find some men not involved in the firefight. Grenades were banging off all over the ridge. The west slope had been vacated already but Lyons heard some- one giving orders in Chinese. He dropped into a hole and emptied a clip at four or five Chinese moving up the slope. Concussion grenades began bursting in front of him and more vague shapes were moving in on him. He reloaded and emptied another clip down the slope. A burp gun began firing at his position. Cpl. James E. Holland, a rifleman, crawled into the hole with Lyons but he was out of ammunition. He started tossing grenades While Lyons fired into the advancing Chinese. While Lyons was trying to hold the advancing enemy on the west slope his north slope Was collapsing. The two Red platoons had rallied and were overrunning Jack. Four of the sergeant's men, all wounded, with- drew south from the knob. Five others, trapped on the top of Jack, blasted away as the Chinese, screaming and yelling, gained the crest and rushed them.

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A., . 9 is t.: :f H--si Pig 12,1 . . a N , L ii- You don't hardly hear bands like this no more! a state of shock, Maxey repeated the question five times. Lyons told him that only the dead remained on Jack. No living men had been left behind. Maxey and Nicker- son, on instructions from the company, established a perimeter around King. Five minutes later, the enemy opened up a terrific mortar bombardment. MaXey's perimeter now started suffering casualties. Maxey was ordered to Withdraw temporarily until the shelling had ceased. Then at 2040, company headquarters told him to lead a three-squad force back to Jack in search of the dead. An extra patrol Was sent in from the company and UN artillery was promised on the hill before MaXey's screening patrol reached the knob. A count had turned up five men missing. Sergeant Acebado was dead, so were others. Since there Was still a chance that some of the missing men were alive on Jack, Maxey requested that the artillery be cancelled. Moving down over King and Queen and leaving perimeter squads Personnel of the 223rd Inf. Regt., 40th U. S. Inf. Div. stationed at Kapyong Korea are entertained by USO-Camp Show