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...joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn. We turned left at the first intersection and passed three huge silhouettes by the roadside. "Tanks. That's good. As long as they stay away from our doughfoots," someone muttered...
Shortly before dawn the battalion commander, burly Lieut. Colonel John Toffey, stopped his men at an abandoned farmhouse and set up his command post there. The medics took over the crude workshop, and began unpacking packages and plasma bottles in the dark. The Colonel ordered most of the men into the long, smelly stable for safety, but sat himself down at the rear of the building with a portable radio...
...Germans have claimed that the Russians killed these Polish prisoners of war in March 1940. The Russians say that the Germans found the Poles still locked in camps when they reached Smolensk in July 1941, slaughtered them all by the end of September. They say that German Construction Battalion #537, housed in a large Dacha half a mile away, carried out the executions...
Into the Gully. The death struggle began on the town's outskirts. Some hundreds of British guns, firing an average of 450 shells each, loosed two two-hour barrages on the last gully and ridgetop before Ortona. The first barrage covered one battalion advancing at the rate of 100 yards every five minutes into the gully. The second barrage sprayed the ridgetop, where a lateral road linked with a crossroads on the way into the town...
...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...