Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pretty soon some of our jeeps raced back from the direction which the tanks had taken. As they went by, the occupants yelled something to a group by the house next door, and those men, to my astonishment, suddenly started running toward the beach, looking back in anxious alarm at the road...
There were two Italian officers wandering around in the garden. I decided to ask the Italians to carry me to the beach. They picked me up. I had been vomiting off and on for the last hour, and I did so again and the Italians looked at me with sorrowful eyes...
Farewell to Arms. The Italians weren't very strong, and they set me down to rest every hundred yards or so, but they were willing bearers and they kept on going toward the sea, though shells were now coming down faster in the vicinity of the beach. At last they could go no farther, and they put me down in a semicircle of stones that offered very good shelter. There was another wounded man there...
...ambulance finally drove up there and they loaded us in it. The ambulance carried us to the first-aid station by the beach, where doctors were in attendance. Around the wounded, stretching everywhere over the beach, were strewn guns, trucks, tanks, bulldozers, ducks and jeeps, and down by the beach, with their mouths hanging in the water, were landing craft of many sizes and shapes...
...just a dumb guy who gets himself wounded. But I just heard the radio say that correspondents report that the Italians lit up the beach [at Salerno] for us and we stormed ashore under cover of a heavy bombardment against the Germans, and everything looked like Coney Island...