Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 04.21.2025
Terrain sketch showing Mount Binicayen in April 1945. Sugar Loaf Mountain is to the right of the sketch. This sketch would have been completed from the view atop Mount Pacawagan. (Ohio National Guard Heritage Center)...
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Terrain sketch showing Mount Pacawagan on April 20, 1945. This sketch is from the operational records of the 145th Infantry and shows the view the regiment had when it attacked the mountain in the early morning of April 21, 1945. (Ohio National Guard Heritage Center)...
Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 04.21.2025
All that remains of the 1st Platoon, Company F, 145th Infantry after a 25-day fight on Mount Pacawagan in April-May 1945. On the edge of exhaustion, this photo was taken right after the regiment was taken off the line. A Company F veteran stated that their uniforms were thrown in a large pit and set on fire due to their unsalvageable condition. (Photo from the scrapbook of Staff Sgt. Raymond......
Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 04.21.2025
This photo shows Soldiers from Company F, 145th Infantry high atop the hill mass near Mount Pacawagan in April-May 1945. (Photo from the scrapbook of Staff Sgt. Raymond Lemaster, courtesy of Matt Lemaster)...
Photo by Erin Thompson | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.09.2024
Destruction caused during the retaking of Manila, early 1945
Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 03.12.2019
Pfc. Roy J. Naquin (from left), of Chacahdule, La., Staff Sgt. Donald A. Lyon, of Cincinnati, and Pfc. Perry l. Owen, of Des Moines, Iowa, all members of Company E, 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division, walk through a lane between barbed wire, carrying 60 mm mortar shells from the 2nd Battalion command post to the perimeter of Company F during the Battle of Hill 700, March 9, 1944. The......
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Medical aid Soldiers from the 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division rush a wounded Soldier to an aid station during the Battle of Hill 700, March 8-12, 1944, on the Island of Bougainville in the South Pacific. The battle was among the bloodiest and most fiercely fought days the Buckeyes saw in their nearly 600 days in combat during World War II. (Photo from Ohio Army National Guard Historical......
Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 03.12.2019
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler (left), commanding general of the 37th Infantry Division, congratulates Lt. Clinton S. McLaughlin of Company G, 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division, after presenting him the Distinguished Service Cross during a ceremony in June 1944. McLaughlin was cited for his extraordinary heroism while serving as a platoon leader during the Battle of Hill 700, March 8-12,......
