General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

ins, played the dominant role in the capture of a hill which constituted a keF
bastion in the enemy's Shuri defense rim. - Its seizure was achieved in the face
of incessant and accurate fire from seven supporting hills and under a constant
hail of hand grwndes and mortar fire from enemy entrenched on reverse slopes.
Once the company bad established a precarious foothold on the hill, it was subjected
to counterxttxcks by day and night, and on one oceasion, was able to repel!
the enemy anly by expenditure of 2,500 hand grenades in a single night. Ey the
third day, the company had lost 12 key omcers and nancommiasioned officers, per
was still able not anly to destroy every enemy position on the hiil, but also to
assist anolller bnttnlian in the capture of an adjacent stronghold. At a cost Of
11 men killed and 75 wounded, Conznang E, 3SZd Infantry RcginLe+~t, accomplished
its missinn in full. an achievement which \\-ould not have been nossible without
the most skillful and intrcpid leadcrshig mid the unexcelled gallantry on the part
of those who were led. (General Orders 169, Headquarters XXlV Corps, 10
November 194.5, as ap~irored by the Commander in Chief, United States Arm?
Farces, Pacific.)
ZX..UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TYPHUS COMMISSION MEDAL.-BY
direction of the President, under the ~rovisions of Executive Order 9286, 24
December 1842 (sec. 11, WU Bul. 3, 192) and AR EOM5, the United States of
America Tsplrus Commission Xedal for exceptionally meritorious services in
connection With the work of the Commission during - tlle neriods indicated was
awarded by tlle War Dr~nrtment to the folloming-named offirers:
H'irst Lieutenant Hinlmar A. Ttllmun, 08894M, Medieal Admin~strative Corps,
Army of the United States, rendered meritorious services from July to November
1945, as adjniant, supply ofilcer, anrl detael~mcnt commander of the fieid headquarters
of the United States of America Typhus Commission at Xyitkyinn,
Burma. Lieutenant Tillmnn's effeclive and devoted services in handling the
manifold problems relating to the internal and external administration of the
activities of this large fldd headquarters contributed an important element to
the successful functioning of the field station and to the Commission's program
of investigation of scrub typhus.
Captain Robert Traub, 0473146, Sanitary Corps, Army of the United States,
rendered exceptionally meritorious scrrices in eonneetion with the work of the
United States of America Typhus Commission in tile investigation of the epirlemiulogy
of scrub typlms iu Aseam nnll Burma from >larch to Korember 1945.
He participated actively in the collectian and clnssifieation of the mites suspected
of transmitting the disease. Captain Tmut's analysis of the data collected by
the Commission's field headquarters provided statistical evidence of the identity
Of the mite responsible for the spread of the diaease. Knowledge and control
of scrub tygtms have been enlarged by his scientific contributions.
Br om= OF TEE SECILCTABY OF WIB:
Owrcrfi: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWR
EDW.4RD F. WITSELL Chief of Stab
Major General
The Adjutant General