Chris Williamson“The Fighting Preacher” Is The Best Story From WWII
Chris Williamson
Logan Weston 0:00
Logan Weston is held up as a man who deserved more notice than he got. He grew up poor, worked in coal mines and as a lumberjack, and once gave up his own job for a friend with a wife and children. Both jobs then turned deadly after a mine collapse and a logging accident. After a failed suicide attempt, he took it as a second chance, went to college to become a preacher, and was drafted before Pearl Harbor. He chose infantry without really knowing the options.
War and calling 10:00
Weston was sent first to guard the Mississippi River, then to the Pacific, where he landed at Guadalcanal too late for the main fighting. He later fought on New Georgia, where his company was surrounded for 29 days, then again for two weeks, and learned to survive by drawing on experience, native guides, and whatever food he could find. After letters from home told him his fiance was leaving and his parents were divorcing, he volunteered for Merrill's Marauders, marched into China from India, and kept going after being wounded.
Pusan perimeter fight 13:32
Logan Weston arrives at the Pusan perimeter just as North Korean forces are pressing South Korea to the edge. His radio fails, and higher command keeps dismissing his warnings that about 90 enemy soldiers are approaching. When the shooting starts, he leads the men under him in holding the hill and stopping the attack. His unit is credited with killing 200 to 300 men while only about 30 hold the position. Weston is badly wounded, and the action earns a Medal of Honor nomination that is cut down to a Distinguished Service Cross.
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