Lloyd Eugene Korth

1939 LHS Football Squad

Pvt. Eugene Korth Transferred

Pvt. Eugene Korth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Korth of Roselawn, is now stationed at San Diego, Calif.

Japs are Scared to Die, Says Lowell Youth

U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif., May 20 -- Many of the Japs found dead on Bougainville after being subjected to marine artillery bombardment were huddled in foxholes and wherever else they could find any protection. Their faces were usually covered with their hands.

"Many of them looked as if they were scared to death," said Marine Pfc. Lloyd Eugene Korth, age 19, who is convalescing here from a knee injury suffered on Bougainville last November. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Korth, who live at Roselawn in Newton county.

"After we had finished bombarding the Japs," Korth said, "we would go out to make counts to see how effective our fire was. I remember one day after a bombardment, we counted 245 dead Japs. They were huddled in foxholes and in any other places where they thought they could escape our fire. It seemed a bit odd to see so many of them with their faces covered with their hands when death overtook them."