Captain Ben Salomon’s delayed Medal of Honor

Americanthinker.com ^ | 9/6/2021 | Robert Lucas

[rktman]

Ben Salomon, a Jewish Army Captain from Milwaukee, was on the strategically important island of Saipan near the village of Tanapag on July 7, 1944, for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. Taking the island put them in range of mainland Japan.

We Are the Mighty gives a detailed report about what happened and what was discovered by American forces who had retaken the position:

“Contact with Salomon was lost for 15 hours as the American force conducted a withdrawal and then slowly took the territory back. When they found Salomon, he was laying on a machine gun, dead, with 76 bayonet and bullet wounds. Dozens of enemy dead were arrayed before him, a blood trail showed where he had repositioned the gun multiple times, almost certainly while fatally wounded, to continue covering the retreat.”

[rktman]

Thank you sir.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Shows you how crazy our enemies are. Too many naive bystanders out there.

[Guenevere]

Amazing warrior!
God bless!

[Rowdyone]

“Where do we get such men” - Admiral George Tarrant.

[Mean Daddy]

Think of the stories that we’ll never hear. It’s men like this that make America great.

[SunkenCiv]

“Contact with Salomon was lost for 15 hours as the American force conducted a withdrawal and then slowly took the territory back. When they found Salomon, he was laying on a machine gun, dead, with 76 bayonet and bullet wounds. Dozens of enemy dead were arrayed before him, a blood trail showed where he had repositioned the gun multiple times, almost certainly while fatally wounded, to continue covering the retreat.”

That's how you do that.

[Mean Daddy]

[TokarevM57]

......amazing story....

[whitney69]

To him, and the many that have followed in his footsteps, we don’t care that he was Jewish. He was a soldier. Why couldn’t they leave it at that. It was in the Pacific. What did it have to do with religious position? He was great by having the courage and love for this country and troops by what he did, not who he prayed to.

wy69

[Bigg Red]

Exactly. He was an American hero..

They love to divide us.

[SES1066]

There are those afoot in academia who decry the study of OWEM (Old White European Authors) and say; 'let us instead study the contemporary and tinged with color'! Especially do they shun Homer and Virgil and Augustine and Chaucer BUT, at the end, it is Shakespeare that they would bury forever. He strides above English Literature to the point where these base knaves seek another tongue entirely!

Try to avoid Shakespeare and you deny the heritage of our culture. Talk about heroes like Captain Solomon and hear our mutual gift from Shakespeare's Henry V's Agincourt speech;

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.,

Long delayed but fully earned! RIP!

[Captain Peter Blood]

Being Jewish had nothing to do with it, what he was was a Dentist on the front lines doing meatball surgery to save people. He took control and did what had to be done. The bravest of the brave.

[Salvavida]

Being Jewish is immaterial. He was an American Army officer. That should be enough.