guy, he took off. And me, I thought I was doing the right thing, but… So the MP took me back to my company – M Company. Captain Hempstead was so mad that I was involved in one fight again. Then he court-martial me…and he threw me to one rifle company. He say, ‘If you
enemy off balance and worried about where the next strike would come from. Following a firefight on August 30, that resulted in the death of M Company Captain Robert L. Hempstead and others, Chaplain Lieutenant Masao Yamada went the next day beyond the lines to retrieve the dead. He and his men fashioned a