Boston Custer messenger that Lt. Col. Custer had requested ammunition for an impending fight, they quickly left the pack train. The pair passed by Frederick Benteen's detachment and joined Custer's main column as it moved into position to attack a sprawling Indian village along the Little Big Horn River. Had they stayed with the pack train where they were assigned, Boston Custer and Autie Reed might have survived the battle. Like his brothers and nephew, Boston was killed at the area known as "Last Stand Hill". A marble marker commemorates the approximate place where his body was found and identified. Though originally
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors USS "Enterprise", the only survivors who recounted the battle were Enterprise sailors and airmen. In this episode, there were no survivors of the Taffy 3 interviewed. In fact there is no mention of any of the Taffy 3 ships or their captains except Ernest E. Evans of the destroyer "Johnston". The episode skirts the fundamental issue of how close the Japanese came to annihilating Taffy 3. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors The nonfiction book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour is the first