BoH p250 Captain James V. "Jamo" Shanley：为救援伤兵而殒命的L/3/7指挥官
BoH p250提到的关于L/3/7的CO Captain James V. "Jamo" Shanley和XO 2nd Lt.Harold J.Collins在Umurbrogol Pocket 10月4日这天的战斗里双双阵亡的情况，亦可参见：
1）http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/IV/
PART III: The Palaus: Gateway to the Philippines
Chapter 7. The Umurbrogol Pocket: 29 September-15 October
Captain Shanley在救援第二名部下时被迫击炮弹碎片击中阵亡；他的副连，一名少尉，在冲出去救援他时被反坦克炮击中阵亡。
Without any visible means of escape, the trapped men reacted instinctively. Unable to see their well-camouflaged assailants, the Marines fought back as best they could. Their predicament had not gone unnoticed. From the adjacent draw, Captain James V. Shanley, commanding Company L, known by the nickname "Jamo," was desperately seeking a means of rescuing his men. He ordered a tank up the narrow valley, but the terrain precluded the effective employment of armor. The tank eventually became a precarious shelter behind which some of the wounded could find cover. It could not take an effective part in the fighting and was helpless to stem the slaughter. From the crest of Boyd Ridge, men from Company K watched in silent rage the carnage taking place before their eyes. In desperation they began to hurl white phosphorus grenades into the gorge. Dense smoke mercifully began to obscure the scene of death and violence.
On the crest, the few men still able to maneuver did what they could to get the wounded off the ridge. There was no easy way out, and despite the smoke, Japanese bullets were still finding their marks. This is the picture that presented itself to an observer of the action:
The wounded crawled behind rocks or just lay motionless, bullets hitting them again and again. Others cried pitifully for help and begged their comrades not to leave them there. Medical corpsmen worked bravely and efficiently, each of them dragging men to the ledge. One of them stood up to cry: "Take it easy! Bandage each other. Get out a few at a time..." He was shot and killed. Those men who could move threw away their weapons because they couldn't climb down the cliff speedily without using both hands. And as they climbed down, some were hit and fell to the ravine floor. Others slipped and fell, suffering severe cuts from the jagged and sharp coral... One of the wounded who lay on the floor of the ravine tried to help another across the open draw to the safety of the tank. The lesser wounded put his arms around the other and the two hobbled across the open draw. They could not make it. They dropped helpless there in the open draw, and the Japanese opened fire on them.
This was more than Shanley could stand. Although a lieutenant tried to hold him, Jamo ran out from under cover into the draw, swept one of the men into his arms, carried him back to the tank, laid him down tenderly and ran out into the tire-swept open ground again for the other. He did not reach him. A mortar shell fell before Captain Shanley got there. Shrapnel tore through Shanley, wounding him mortally. When he saw Shanley fall, a second lieutenant, Shanley's exec, rushed out. He had just reached Jamo when the chug-chug of an antitank gun was heard. He fell at Jamo's side, dead.
Only a few of the men made it across the draw. By 1820 it was all over. There were 11 men left out of the 48 that had ascended the ridge, and of these, only five from the leading platoon of Company L emerged from the draw unscathed.
2）Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
Captain Shanley救回了两名受伤部下，在冲出去救第三个人时被迫击炮弹炸死。他的副连Collins少尉在冲出去救援他时被反坦克炮击中阵亡。Captain Shanley因其英勇表现被追授第二枚海军十字勋章（Navy Cross），他曾在格洛斯特角战役里获得海军十字勋章。
两处来源说法有所不同。前者是USMC总部G3部门的历史分部编写的，后者的著者是Gordon D.Gayle准将，参加过瓜岛、新不列颠、贝里琉诸战役的老兵，海军十字勋章获得者，在贝里琉战役时他是陆战5团2营的指挥官。
对于Captain Shanley在战场上身为上尉连指挥官却不顾个人安危，冲出掩体救护暴露在敌人火力下的负伤部下的行为，表彰荣誉勋章也不为过。遗憾的是查不到他详细的个人资料，也找不到照片。
到10月4日结束时，L/3/7和I/3/7总计470人减员至80人。1营只能勉强凑出百余人还能参与作战，2营剩下30%战斗力。很显然鉴于陆战7团承受的严重损失，它已不再能够作为团级战斗单位保持有效运作。Rupertus因此下令从10月5日起陆战5团替换陆战7团……（接下来Umurbrogol的篇章将以陆战5团的鲜血写就……）
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我又神通广大了……偶尔还是要膜拜自己一下的。另，再次感慨books.google.com就是个神物！
嗯，查到Capt.Shanley是哥伦比亚大学41届毕业生= =
照片地址：http://www.warmemorial.columbia.edu/james-vincent-shanley
阵亡日期标错了，8月4日陆战一师还在帕伏伏呢，贝里琉还没开打。
1）http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/IV/
PART III: The Palaus: Gateway to the Philippines
Chapter 7. The Umurbrogol Pocket: 29 September-15 October
Captain Shanley在救援第二名部下时被迫击炮弹碎片击中阵亡；他的副连，一名少尉，在冲出去救援他时被反坦克炮击中阵亡。
Without any visible means of escape, the trapped men reacted instinctively. Unable to see their well-camouflaged assailants, the Marines fought back as best they could. Their predicament had not gone unnoticed. From the adjacent draw, Captain James V. Shanley, commanding Company L, known by the nickname "Jamo," was desperately seeking a means of rescuing his men. He ordered a tank up the narrow valley, but the terrain precluded the effective employment of armor. The tank eventually became a precarious shelter behind which some of the wounded could find cover. It could not take an effective part in the fighting and was helpless to stem the slaughter. From the crest of Boyd Ridge, men from Company K watched in silent rage the carnage taking place before their eyes. In desperation they began to hurl white phosphorus grenades into the gorge. Dense smoke mercifully began to obscure the scene of death and violence.
On the crest, the few men still able to maneuver did what they could to get the wounded off the ridge. There was no easy way out, and despite the smoke, Japanese bullets were still finding their marks. This is the picture that presented itself to an observer of the action:
The wounded crawled behind rocks or just lay motionless, bullets hitting them again and again. Others cried pitifully for help and begged their comrades not to leave them there. Medical corpsmen worked bravely and efficiently, each of them dragging men to the ledge. One of them stood up to cry: "Take it easy! Bandage each other. Get out a few at a time..." He was shot and killed. Those men who could move threw away their weapons because they couldn't climb down the cliff speedily without using both hands. And as they climbed down, some were hit and fell to the ravine floor. Others slipped and fell, suffering severe cuts from the jagged and sharp coral... One of the wounded who lay on the floor of the ravine tried to help another across the open draw to the safety of the tank. The lesser wounded put his arms around the other and the two hobbled across the open draw. They could not make it. They dropped helpless there in the open draw, and the Japanese opened fire on them.
This was more than Shanley could stand. Although a lieutenant tried to hold him, Jamo ran out from under cover into the draw, swept one of the men into his arms, carried him back to the tank, laid him down tenderly and ran out into the tire-swept open ground again for the other. He did not reach him. A mortar shell fell before Captain Shanley got there. Shrapnel tore through Shanley, wounding him mortally. When he saw Shanley fall, a second lieutenant, Shanley's exec, rushed out. He had just reached Jamo when the chug-chug of an antitank gun was heard. He fell at Jamo's side, dead.
Only a few of the men made it across the draw. By 1820 it was all over. There were 11 men left out of the 48 that had ascended the ridge, and of these, only five from the leading platoon of Company L emerged from the draw unscathed.
2）Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
Captain Shanley救回了两名受伤部下，在冲出去救第三个人时被迫击炮弹炸死。他的副连Collins少尉在冲出去救援他时被反坦克炮击中阵亡。Captain Shanley因其英勇表现被追授第二枚海军十字勋章（Navy Cross），他曾在格洛斯特角战役里获得海军十字勋章。
两处来源说法有所不同。前者是USMC总部G3部门的历史分部编写的，后者的著者是Gordon D.Gayle准将，参加过瓜岛、新不列颠、贝里琉诸战役的老兵，海军十字勋章获得者，在贝里琉战役时他是陆战5团2营的指挥官。
对于Captain Shanley在战场上身为上尉连指挥官却不顾个人安危，冲出掩体救护暴露在敌人火力下的负伤部下的行为，表彰荣誉勋章也不为过。遗憾的是查不到他详细的个人资料，也找不到照片。
到10月4日结束时，L/3/7和I/3/7总计470人减员至80人。1营只能勉强凑出百余人还能参与作战，2营剩下30%战斗力。很显然鉴于陆战7团承受的严重损失，它已不再能够作为团级战斗单位保持有效运作。Rupertus因此下令从10月5日起陆战5团替换陆战7团……（接下来Umurbrogol的篇章将以陆战5团的鲜血写就……）
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我又神通广大了……偶尔还是要膜拜自己一下的。另，再次感慨books.google.com就是个神物！
嗯，查到Capt.Shanley是哥伦比亚大学41届毕业生= =
照片地址：http://www.warmemorial.columbia.edu/james-vincent-shanley
阵亡日期标错了，8月4日陆战一师还在帕伏伏呢，贝里琉还没开打。
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Captain James Vincent Shanley,CO of L/3/7,1st Marine Division |
