In the aftermath, he had been wounded at least five different times by fragmentation and concussion grenades in the chest, arms, right calf, knee, right and left thighs. Eighty-three fragments were later removed. He never complained and refused medical evacuation until his men were settled into their night defensive positions. Born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian reservation in 1917, Woodrow Wilson Keeble joined the North Dakota National Guard in 1942 while the Chicago White Sox were trying to recruit the big athlete. He served with Company I, 164th Infantry Regiment, Americal Division, the first US Army unit on Guadalcanal. They...
