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At a certain moment, the Germans were so close that the tubes of the mortars had reached their maximum elevation. The crew removed the bipods and continued to fire holding the tubes with blankets.

Holloway’s unit little Alamo stood up against the flood of German grenadiers and the mortar men repulsed several assaults on their position. The battle had reached a climax when a burst of machine gun fire stitched Holloway in the neck, instantly killing him. The German attack died down and the grenadiers started to bypass the little bastion of resistance to move further west.

S/Sgt Hicks took advantage of this and ordered a withdrawal. "No Germans physically entered our mortar positions while I was there. I was in the same hole with Holloway when he was killed. Nothing could be done and his body was abandoned at the entrance of his command post."

On 9 November 1990, Lt Holloway's remains were found about 10 yards from where he was last seen on 16 December 1944. The team contacted the Army who sent the remains to Hawaii where positive identification was made. On 6September 1991, Lt Holloway was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas with full military honors.