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Show RAY D. FREE 22 20 "Come on now guys; let's go to work." Well of cours th y w r all th p pl I'd trained and so forth, and they went to work, and that day fire direction lo t a f:l w p int on the first problem; they were a little bit slow. Outside of that we had a perfect day. o I was back to the S-3 spot. And I stayed there until the eruption that I told you about. Then I went down and commanded Battery B. In the artillery, 7th Division headquarters they kind of knew the situation down there, so they called me up and asked me if I'd like to go on detached service for a little bit, which I did. I went on detached service and had a delightful time. We had eight companies to send to MacArthur with special training in artillery for a cannon company to go with the infantry divisions to give the division, the infantry divisions, some cannon support of its own, with light cannon. So, that went off beautifully and when we got through with that I was offered a job on the staff of the 4th Headquarters of Patton's command. And the colonel in charge said he wanted me, and what have you, and came over and called me over to his office and said, "The division won't let you go. Your commander says he can't go to battle without you, and the 7th Division is hotter than hell." He said, "I got to go pee," and walked out. And when he walked out he kind of flipped the paper like that on his desk. I walked over and looked at it. I knew it was an invitation, so I opened it. It was my promotion to a major. He said, "My car is there, take it, go up to the division, see if you can talk your way out." Well, I went back to the division, and finally saw the chief of staff, the deputy chief of staff, I reported in to him and I said, "I'm Captain Free, sir." He said, "Free, where have I heard 29 |
