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...Colonel, his short legs pumping up & down with extraordinary speed, churned straight up the slope toward the firing. A queer glimmer of a smile played around his lips. Three riflemen, an officer called Jack, two soldiers with walkie-talkies and I scrambled after him, while the rest of the battalion flew across the lower slopes...
...worked quickly along the top of the ridge away from the road. Forward of him the battle raged. Back of him his own soldiers swarmed, as yet with no destination. Here was excitement, uncertainty, no use for last night's plans, no time to ask for instructions. The battalion commander...
Below us was a deep ravine clothed in low bushes. On the other side of the ravine was a steep hill-the one which Captains Kelly and Belisle had already gone ahead to take. Kelly's company and a company from another battalion were on the slope nearest us; Belisle's company was on the rear slope, out of our sight...
Sweeping out of Barrafranca, thirteen Mark-IIIs and Mark-IVs had overrun our 3rd battalion, forcing it to evacuate its position in the plain. Temporarily unopposed by infantry, the tanks came on down the valley between the hills, shooting up at us as they came...
...guns and the Honeys took the steam out of the Germans; they withdrew a little. Momentarily our rear was safe. But with the 3rd battalion driven back on our right, our position was still uncertain. The only thing to do, said the Colonel, was to attack, take White House Hill and deprive the Germans of observation. It did not matter that we would be isolated. We had to take the hill...