STOP #15 PVT RICHARD SORENSEN - By nightfall the Japanese had managed to regroup and launch a series of uncoordinated but vicious counter-attacks against the dug-in Marines. During one such attack, near your present location, Marine Private Richard K. Sorensen rolled on a Japanese hand grenade and absorbed the blast in order to protect his fellow Marines. Private Sorensen, who received the Medal of Honor, survived and was a guest of the U.S. Army at the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Roi and Namur in 1994. Continue along ALTAIR Road and pass in front of the TRADEX/ALCOR complex. Proceed down the dirt road to the shoreline to the next marker.