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Sergeant First Class Kaufman's company was in a defensive position on two adjoining hills, his platoon occupying a strong point two miles away protecting the battalion flank. Early in the morning the company was attacked by an enemy battalion and Kaufman's platoon was ordered to reinforce the company. As his unit moved along a ridge it encountered a hostile force. SFC Kaufman, running forward, bayoneted the lead scout and engaged the column in a rifle and grenade assault. His quick Vicious attack so surprised the enemy that they retreated in confusion. When his platoon joined the company he discovered that the enemy had taken commanding ground and pinned the company down in a draw. Without hesitation SFC Kaufman charged the enemy lines firing his rifle and throwing grenades. During the action, he bayoneted two enemy and seized an unmanned machinegun, delivered deadly fire on the defenders. The company regrouped and resumed the attack during which SFC Kaufman destroyed a hostile machinegun position, and routed the remaining enemy. Pursuing the hostile troops he bayoneted two more and then rushed a mortar position shooting the gunners. Six months later he was killed in action in Korea.
Loren Kaufman enlisted in the Army one week after Pearl Harbor, and spent three years in combat during World War II, fighting with the famed 3d Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.
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