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It had originally been planned to use the tall Ubach church on the Western edge of town as an OP, but the Germans shelled it heavily and lopped off the steeple and riddled the church. Then I Company established its defenses around the schoolhouse and shell of the church, Protecting the rear of the 3rd Battalion. Strong road blocks were set up on the roads leading into Ubach. In addition to the heavy artillery fire dropping all over Ubach, considerable small-arms fire was being received from the eastern edge of Palenberg on the left flank of I Company. None of the counterattack on the early morning of 4 October hit I Company, but the shelling of Ubach continued and grew in intensity. While moving east through Ubach on 4 October, Lt. Shelton S. Turner was leading his weapons platoon down the street and four or five big shells fropped in the middle of the platoon, Killing Lt. Turner and wiping out one squad ten men were wounded by the shell fragments.