A note about "Redheart's War"

While researching my next project Solomon Islands Destroyer Action in Spaaaaace, I found this summary of a story I had run across while outlining "Redheart's War." This is one of the most amazing stories you'll ever read, and was a major inspiration for Redheart:
Benjamin Salomon’s Medal of Honor
Excerpt:

After being promoted to Captain in 1944, Salomon was deployed in June to Saipan in the Mariana Islands with the 105th Infantry. At the time, Saipan was an active combat zone with little need for a regimental dentist, so when the 2nd Battalion’s surgeon was wounded in a mortar attack on June 27, 1944, Salomon immediately volunteered to replace him.

As American forces worked to establish control over Saipan in the summer of 1944, the 2nd Battalion positioned themselves on western coast near Tanapag. On July 6, 1944, after receiving intelligence reports that the Japanese were planning to attack that night, the 2nd Battalion established a perimeter consisting of a series of foxholes protected by artillery. Salomon created a medical aid station in a small tent about 50 yards behind the forward foxholes and about 30 yards from the shoreline.

On July 7, 1944, at 0500, an estimated 3,000–5,000 Japanese forces attacked the 105th Infantry Regiment’s 1st and 2nd Battalions. Although both units fought furiously, enemy forces soon penetrated their combined perimeter, inflicting an overwhelming number of causalities. While Salomon tended to these victims, several Japanese soldiers managed to get inside the medical tent. In an act of heroism, Salomon fought off the enemy while ordering the evacuation of his patients. In order to hold off the Japanese and ensure a safe withdrawal, Salomon, armed with a single rifle, continued to fight alongside the few American soldiers who were still stationed inside the perimeter. After four men manning a heavy machine gun were killed, Salomon single handedly took control of it, killing more than 90 Japanese soldier before being fatally shot.

Don't fuck with dentists.

Comments

[stag the story teller]

Yup, don't!

[Bronycommander]

I heard of this myself, damn impressive

[Reggie the Griffon]

He did all that because they didnt floss

[PaintedPony]

If ever life feels overwhelming reading Medal of Honor accounts makes most of our problems feel small.

[ShivalWolf]

I will have to check it out given how much i Loved Redheart's war. (having read it 8 times now)

[SockPuppet]

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You'll definitely recognize the scene at the aid station on the island.