Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1942 — Page 17

"Hero of Buna Battle Wants fo Get His A

« By FRANK HEWLETT ; United Press Staff Correspondent 4 _ WITH AMERICAN FORCES or NEAR BUNA, Dec. 13 (Delayed)— © The first American hero of the “+ Buna campaign, 33-year-old brevet- > ed Captain Herman H. L. Bottcher, y1s. going to become an American &. citizen as soon as the law will let 2 him,

a TI found him today attending

® church services in the field after

he and his small \party of Ameri-

:ans had been relieved from a week's ard holding of the wedge they ushed between Buna village and ;he Buna mission, Bottcher, whose German father was killed fighting the Australians in world war I; is not an American citizen although he used to be one and lived in the United States from 1930 until Dec. 8, 1941, when he joined the army. In 1987 he joined the Spanish

cause he “hated dictators,” and forféited his citizenship under a law forbidding Americans to fight for foreign powers. “I am eligible for : citizenship again in March 1944,” Bottcher said, “and I shall become one.” He said he didn’t know how many Japanese he had killed and. insisted the boys in his outfit had disposed of more than he had, Bottcher joined the international

Loyalists’ international brigade be-

brigade as a private and retired as

a captain, after three citations. He joined the American army as a private, was promoted to corporal on a {ransport en route to Australia, became a staff sergeant before the New Guinea campaign opened and was. breveted a captain and placed in charge of a company when all officers were wounded or on the sick list. He has been recommended for a permanent captaincy,’ * Some of his exploits, all confirmed by superiors, include. knocking a

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __ merican Citizenship Back in 1944

through the jungle grass country to|

Japanese sniper out of a tree with a Tommy gun Dec. 1 and the. same afternoon, single handed, knocking out a machine gun nest by crawling Rithin 3 yards of it to toss a grenade.

A few days later he risked his life again to divert fire from a trapped officer, enabling him to escape. He stood up in the open and hurled grenades at the Japanese, drawing their fire. ; ; .On Dec. 5 he led a small party

the beach, splitting the main Japanese forces in the Buna area. Two mornings later the Japanese coun-tered-attacked from both sides of Bottcher’s salient. He led his men in pitching two full boxes of grenades at the enemy: The counterattacks were repelled with 15 to 20 Japanese killed. : On Dec. 9, the Japanese tried to reinforce the isolated garrison in Buna village, but Bottcher’s men held them off.

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