Valiantly defending this vital position against strong enemy counterattacks during the night, Private First Class Skaggs was critically wounded when a Japanese grenade lodged in his foxhole and exploded, shattering the lower part of one leg.
The dog, Skipper, who had been asleep in front of his handler’s foxholesuddenly bolted upright, alerting Fetzer.
By 1800, darkness had set in and the men all knew the iron-clad rule: be in yourfoxhole and stay there.
The foxhole had two entrances, both well-concealed, and he had rigged elaborate warning devices should the vicinity be approached.
With morning he was half a mile away, in a foxhole less than sixty yards from the massive outer perimeter of the arena.
The 3d received orders to stay and guard the road junction at Digahongan, nicknamed Foxhole Corners, where it went into night perimeter.
Camp Downes Immediately north of Ipil, Colonel Mitsui had constructed a few small strong points, each of which consisted of two coconut log pillboxes, several trenches, and foxhole emplacements for machine guns.
Our foxhole in that sand was about six feet long by two feet in depth and just about wide enough to hold the two of us.
I kept watch in a foxhole with my sergeant, and we both stayed awake all night with a knife in one hand and a grenade in the other.
Carrying a shotgun, he went from foxholetofoxhole urging his troops forward against heavy enemy fire.
