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Frank Pomroy

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Frank Pomroy had been rescued at sea and was at New Caledonia trying to get passage to rejoin his unit on Guadalcanal. He didn't know it yet but they been all but abandoned by the Navy and were fighting the Japanese with very few supplies. (First interview) (6:27)

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He was on the 37mm gun and he only had 55 rounds to last the night. Frank Pomroy chose his targets carefully and the grapeshot he was firing was really an anti-tank weapon mowing down the charging enemy. Finally the Banzai attacks ended. This was the first defeat for the Japanese in the Pacific. (First interview) (7:19)