Decoration

Tongan Receives Us

From Our Own Correspondent South Pacific Headquarters, Feb. 29.

A SERGEANT in the South Pacific Scouts (American name for the Fiji battalion that is serving overseas), Jione Inukiha’ Agana, who comes from Nukualofa, Tonga, has been awarded the American Silver Star. The decoration is for gallantry in action on New Georgia Island in the Solomons, on July 19 last year.

Sgt. Agana saw two or three Japanese making directly for a wounded American soldier. He killed the Japanese and then, under heavy enemy fire, successfully evacuated the injured man.