Listen: Kuala Canal, Port High School And Charlotte discussed on The KDKA Radio Afternoon News with Robert Mangino
"This is a time capsule the CEO and president of the Heinz history center anti may say I'm willing to back down despite long odds marine sergeant Mitchell page earned his place as an American legend for his aerobic efforts during one of the most important battles of World War two born in Charlotte right Pennsylvania in nineteen eighteen to Serbian immigrants page graduated from McKee's port high school before enlisting in the U. S. marines after completing boot camp training at Parris island South Carolina in nineteen thirty six page served in Panama the Philippines China Cuba and Puerto Rico when the United States entered World War two he shipped out to Kuala canal a small stretch of land in the Solomon Islands near Australia on October twenty sixth nineteen forty two page on the seventh marines withstood a furious assault by Japanese soldiers during the battle of Guadalcanal the first round attack against American troops of World War two in the desperate fighting all the other marines and pages machine gun section were killed or wounded but the western Pennsylvania native fought back operating in turn four machine guns and single handedly stopping an entire Japanese regimen for leading a bayonet charge in a counter attack rented enemy soldiers from breaking through the American lines for his extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in the face of overwhelming odds page was awarded the medal of honor and a field commission as a second lieutenant page continue to"