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ROBERT ATZ
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Robert ATZ Pfc, 2d Platoon "A" Company KIA, Monkey Point 26 February 1945 |
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Pat called up to us, “There are two dead Yanks down here.” That’s all I can remember, so it is probably when the explosion occurred. I have been told that the whole of its force could not escape out the entrance (but what did tipped the tank,) so the earth over the cave, to my left, opened up. Likely the concussion from that broke my left eardrum and killed my left eye’s optic nerve. The broken bones were probably due to falling rocks. I received casts on both legs, and other care, at our aid station, though I cannot remember it and was sent to a hospital at Subic Bay where I “came to.” Pat White was not killed by the explosion; Bob Atz and Paul Saul were.
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