The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1948 Page: 3 of 8
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The Story of The Death of
John Hera rain Service
The folowing is a letter Mrs.
John Herrera received from one
of the buddies, who saw her hus-
band fall in action, while serving
his country.
It gives a very interesting ac-
count of the battle in which John
paid the supreme pricc.
The letter in part reads:
Well, Elidia, John came into
our Company in October 1943.
-iWe were on the island of Oahu,
at a place called Kuhuku. He was
assigned to my tent and also toj
my squad and I liked him from the
start, although he was very hard
to get acquainted with for a long
time. He showed me your picture
and also of the oldest boy, if I
remember right he said his name
was Roger. I guess you hadn't the
other one y«t.
Every one liked John very
much. He was always so cheerful
and I can never remember seeing
him angry. We used to play check
era by the hour. To start with I
used to beat hira every game, but
a9 time went on he got too much
for me and beat me every game.
They made a Browning auto-
matic team out of John, myself,
and Lavern Sarazin. Lavern's nick
name was Duke. John was the
gunner, I was his assistant, and
Duke was our ammunition car-
rier. So you see us three were to-
gether all the time as we had to
work as a unit.
We left Oahu the 24th of>
December, 1943. And went to
Guadalcanal. That was the worse
raudhole we ever saw. We left
there the 28th of April 1944 and
went to the Island of New Brit-
tian, and we left there the 7th
of December 1944 and headed
for the Island, of Ludon where we
knded the 9th of January 1945.
That was where a new lift star,
ted for us, as none of vis knew
what was coming next. I wish
i could tell you of all the patrols
we went on, but it would take
too long, but I will tell you of
one we went on the 19th of Jan-
uary. We were at a little town
called Magnatar-frai when word
came through that we had by-
passed about fifty Japs five miles
in back of us. So our platoon was!
selected to go back and sec what
we could do with them. They were
in a deep canyon with a swift
flowing river, which we had to
cross and rccross about seventeen
times before we got to them. We
were in the first squad, so we took'
the left side of the canyon, the
second squad took the canyon and
the third squad took the right side
of the canyon. Wc ran onto one
Jap which we took care of, then
I took the lead and was out in
front about thirty yards, when I
ran into four Japs under a tree.
I opened up on them and got three
of them and then my rifle was em-
pty, aiid I was so excited and
scared at the same time that I
couldn't reload it. Anyway the old
Jap run up the hill so I guess he
was just as scared as I was.
One of the boys finally got him
Things quieted down then for ab-
out ten minutes. Then we see a
long column of Japs about a quar-
ter of a mile from us coming at us
at high speed. John had the B.A.
R. so he opened up on them, and
he sure wiped that trail clear. He
must have got ten or twelve of
them. We saw wc were out num-
bered so we cleared out oil there
in a hurry. We estimated there
must have been around three hun-
dred of them. Our platoon got 19
of them that day, so we done pret-
ty good.
Well, time passed on, and wc
kept on up the valley toward
Manilla, and' we reached Clark
field the 24th of January where
we left the valley and turned to
our right and headed into the
Zambales mountains where the Japs
finally stopped and dug in.
The day of the 28th we were
ordered to make an assault on
Snake Ridge. Wc made about a
mile and about four o'clork we
were ordered to dig in for the
night. We lost one of our Lts.
that afternoon. Well, John, Duke
and' 1 started to dig our foxhole,
for the night and had barely got
started, when wc heard a fap shell
coming through the air. Of course
vv" hit the ground on our stom-
ach cs. That one missed us, and we
started throwing dirt as fast as we
could, when here we heard anoth-
er one coming, so we hit the dirt
again. Well, every thing went
black wh'n I came too 1 couldn't
see anyone around, hut I heard
some guys moaning to my right.
1 turned around then and there
were John and Duke laying there
I yelled to them that every body
was gon-''. Well, they didn't move
So I crawled over to them, and
found John was already gone, but
'< Duke was moaning. I didn't know
: what to do, finally I heard some
! guys coming and it was a bunch of
; medics coming to take the wound-
ed back. There were 24 of the
guys wounded, besides John and
Duke. 1 called them over to see
! if' they couldn't help Duke and
i put my shelter-half and covered
I John up. They wanted to know
j what 1 was doing there as tlv*
rest of the company had fallen
back to where we had started that
morning. Wc put Duke on the
stretcher, hut he died before we
; got back with him. They brought
John out the next day, and he was
buried along side Duke in a little
town called Bam Bam.
After we got out of the hills I
and the rest of the squad went to
the cemetery, and saw their graves.
The 28th of March we left
Luzon and made a landing on the
Island oft Negroes. I was made a
Sgt. by this time. We had some
of our worst fighting on this is-
land.
'I he 20th of April I was hit
with a hand-grenade in seven places
the same grenade killed one of my
men and wounded another one. 1
got out of the hospital in May
and went right back in the front.
My arm wasn't even healed up yet.
Well, the 10th of June our mis_-
sion was completed, and they took
| us to the Island of Panay, where
they started getting ready for the
invasion of Japan, then rhe end
came so sudden, and they shipped
us home. I got my discharge the
25th of September 1945. That
was the most wonderful day of my
life.
Yours very truly,
Clare A. Green.
Dianna Jun, small daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Toddic Trammel is
very ill in the Hamlin hospital.
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Richards, Afton E. & Bass, Harvey L. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1948, newspaper, March 25, 1948; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth127233/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.