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...drudgery, guarding a stretch of the California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing...
...weapon carries an extraordinary amount of equipment. His .25-caliber rifle or machine gun is light and accurate to 1,000 yards. He can carry 400 rounds of its little bullets, twice as many as the load of larger bullets the larger U.S. trooper totes. He carries a bayonet, a canteen, a helmet with a little gold star on it. He carries five days' rations of rice and sardines, and he tends his own cooking...
...British Eighth Army was preparing to clean up its rear. In an assault on Bardia, South African troops went in with the bayonet against Axis units after a preliminary air and tank blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned...
...Bayonet. Sergeant John Daniel Hinton, onetime truck driver, now a prisoner in Germany, made V.C. history. For the first time the award was granted on the basis of accounts of Sergeant Hinton's exploits sent to friends by his fellow prisoners...
...cover. Sergeant Hinton refused the "take cover" order, yelled: "To hell with this! Who'll come with me?" He charged the nearest gun, which fired and missed him. One German gun crew retreated to two houses. At each house in turn, Sergeant Hinton smashed a window with his bayonet, hopped in, dispatched the Germans...