The U.S. Army told him he wasn't allowed to fight. They made him fix teeth instead.
On July 7, 1944, Captain Ben Salomon was working inside a medical tent on Saipan when thousands of Japanese soldiers launched the largest banzai charge of the entire Pacific War — straight through American lines, straight into his aid station. Wounded men filled the tent. Enemy soldiers poured through the entrance. And a dentist who had begged to stay infantry made a decision that the military would argue about for the next six decades.
What he did with a machine gun that morning — and what it cost him — is one of the most extraordinary last stands in American military history. But the story doesn't end on Saipan. What happened after is almost harder to believe.
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