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When Phillips fell with the wound which was later to prove fatal, Pellegrom came up with his platoon to relieve the exhausted platoon, and "C" Company Yorks arrived on the line from their futile flank march just in time to join the Americans at 9:00 a. m. in checking the redoubled counterattack of the hordes of Bolos.
Pellegrom, having hurried out from Archangel, reported for duty and was put in command of a platoon. At 6:00 a. m. "A" Company Yorks was in desperate straits and by verbal order of Col. Lund one platoon of Americans was sent to support their retirement. Lt. Phillips soon found himself hotly engaged.
The Red Guards were massing forces in the upper part of the valley and, German-like, had sent notice of their impending advance to recapture the city of Onega. On September 18th Lieut. Pellegrom received verbal orders from Col. Clark to move his platoon of fifty-eight men with Lieut. Nugent, M. R. C., and one man at once to Chekuevo, about fifty miles up the river.
LIEUT. HOWARD H. PELLEGROM, "H" Co., 339th Inf., for gallantry in action, April 2nd, 1919, near Bolsheozerki, Russia. Legion of Honor MAJOR J. BROOKS NICHOLS, 339th Inf. COL. GEORGE E. STEWART, 339th Inf. Croix de Guerre PVT. WALTER STREIT, "M" Co. SGT. MATHEW G. GRAHEK, "M" Co. PVT. JAMES DRISCOLL, "M.G." Co. PVT. LEO R. ELLIS, "I" Co. LIEUT. JAMES R. DONOVAN, "M" Co. 339th Inf.
Phillips and given to the command of Capt. Burton to make a diversion attack on Wazientia, a village across the river from Kaska. Lieut. Pellegrom was to attack the enemy in flank from the west while Lieut. Phillips and the Cossacks made the frontal assault.
The enemy had been expelled a few days previously by a small detachment of American sailors from the "Olympia." The "H" force consisted of two platoons commanded by Lieuts. Phillips and Pellegrom, who reported to an English officer, Col. Clark. The coming of Americans was none too soon. The British officer had not made much headway in organizing an effective force of the anti-Bolshevik Russians.
Phillip's platoon was early deserted by the Cossacks and, after advancing along the side of a sandy ridge to within one hundred yards of the enemy, found it necessary to dig in. Lieut. Pellegrom on the flank on account of the nature of the ground brought his men only to within three hundred yards of the enemy lines and was unable to make any communication with his leader.
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