2nd Lt. Clifford MACKENZIE

CLIFFORD MACKENZIE
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Clifford MACKENZIE

2nd Lieut."F" Co,

K.I.A. Grubbs Ravine, Corregidor

22 February 1945

The machine gun platoon was from the 3rd LMG. platoon, 2nd Bn HHqCo commanded by 2Lt Clifford MacKenzie. He had followed the 1st and 3rd squads of my platoon. When the line of advance hit the fire lane of the LMG., T-5 William Ashby, Company medic, went to the aid of Pfc Paul Narrow. He went down with gunshot wounds in both ankles. MacKenzie seeing this happen to his front, went to Ashby's aid and died.

MacKenzie's posthumous Silver Star Medal citation says in part:

"Fully aware of the risks involved, Lieutenant MacKenzie unhesitatingly plunged through the withering fire toward the wounded man and in so doing lost his life."

Bill Calhoun
My Day With The Rattlesnakes:

Clifford MacKenzie was a member of a patrol of the second Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Company which came under fire. One man was killed and one wounded in a withering hail of enemy light machine gun fire. Mackenzie was killed plunging through the fire to aid his platoon members. He was awarded the Silver Star posthumously.

Bennett M. Guthrie
"Three Winds of Death"

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