"On 3 March F Company (130) along with another company were ordered into the battle. We were to make a left flank movement, following a high ridge from the north that would bring us almost on the back side of the Peaks. After a daylong march, Voreis and Riggs, acting as scouts, spotted a Jap with a full field pack leaving a grass shack. We both fired at the same time and down he went. Capt. Dillinger decided we should dig in for the night because our shooting likely alerted the Japs.

The late Ross Voreis, F/130, (front center) and others of Fox Company display Japanese equipment captured on Twin Peaks. In memoirs sent by his widow, Thelma, Ross said, "We got to keep the flags and swords and headquarters took the rest."

"After a sleepless night without enemy attack we began our advance. Erickson came upon a Jap fast asleep in his spider hole. He shot him in the head and our Platoon Leader T/Sgt. Sharp ordered a charge and over the top we went in a skirmish line that would have made any WWII captain happy. This fast action caught all but one Jap mortar squad asleep in their caves. They got off two rounds before Voreis and Magliocca wiped them out with M-1s.

"S/Sgt. Oxley threw his first grenade into the cave and heard quite a commotion inside. He immediately got above the cave with his .45 and waited. Soon a Jap came out yelling 'Banzai' and he (Oxley) shot him in the back of the head. This was repeated three more times before Oxley decided that was the last one. With all this action the 123rd Infantry thought we were the enemy and ordered the 155s to fire on us. We had to pull back on the reverse slope until the barrage was over. The only thing that saved us was a little canyon where all the shells fell 'between us and the next peak. You can imagine the hot words flying over the airwaves by this time. When the barrage was over we attacked again and this time wiped out the rest of the caves, accounting for over 30 Japs."

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