PHOTO #18R


R-18___ North Burma ____ February - March, 1944 Members of the mortar outfit that covered Lt. Weston’s Platoon by firing on the Japanese, who attacked the Platoon across the river from Lagging GA, talk over the battle beside their 81mm mortar. From l, to r. are 2nd Lt. William F. Woomer, State College, Pa.; Pvt. Wise Alderman, Floyd, Va.; Sgt. Edwin Kopec, Lowell, Mass., and Pvt. James McGowan, West Newton, Mass.