Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1944 — Page 12

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scored against the Japs. His company was pressing up the northeast coast and had killed Japs by the huridreds when, before they fully realized it, their right flank: was snowed under, Three machine guns were put out of commission by enemy grenades. Then Sgt. Boyd went into action, He seized one of ‘the heavy, water cooled machine guns in his hands and made a 150-yard dash under enemy mortar and machine gun fire. Three times he fell to his knees as he stumbled in the darkness, but he made it to the extreme right flank, dropped the gun into place and started firing away.

Commander Counts Toll

The next morning the company commander counted 83 dead Japs in the arc before Sgt. Boyd's weapon, Some of them were only three feet away from the gun’s snout. Nobody knows how many Japs he killed on Tarawa, But it's a safe bet the Japs suffered under his fire there for Sgt. Boyd had a score to settle with:them for Guadalcanal, It was on Guadalcanal a Jap bul-

lis’ young fighting men. “But one.’ Indianapolis marine, Gunnery Sgt. |? Robert G. Boyd, probably has killed |§

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calling the Japs everything under the sun for yards around. And then July 2 on Saipan, Sgt. Boyd made another dash under Jap machine gun fire. But this time not to kill Japs but to rescue a fallen marine. ¢ He saw the man go down. after being hit in the head by a Jap bullet and lost no time in dragging him from under enemy fire, When

let hit his chin, the rifle ball coming out his neck just below his lef} ear, The force of the bullet knocked him down but, according to a report by one of his buddies, the sergeant “came up fighting”

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blood streaming from him fore and aft, He routed those Japs until he was so faint from lack of blood they had to cart him away on a stretcher. But you cquld hear him cussing and

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and turned him over he discovered ‘he had rescued his best friend, Sgt. william W. Rogal, Lehighton, Pa. Through all of this bitter struggle, Sgt. Boyd was fighting with} his brother, Platoon Sgt. Paul Boyd, who has made a record of his own. Paul has been wounded twice, once while fighting on Saipan within a. few hundred yards of his brother, who received his second wounds there, and again on Tarawa. He has been forced to take command of his rifle platoon three

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