“Enemy, hidden inside of the old stone crypts, waited until American troops passed and then [pulled] back the lids and opened fire,” wrote Captain Denmark Jensen, whose company of 75-millimeter self-propelled guns provided fire support in the Dagami area. The Americans had no choice but to move from headstone to headstone, killing their adversaries point-blank with “flamethrowers and vicious hand-to-hand fighting before the area could be cleared,” the division after-action report summarized with chilling brevity.
