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...this angry gesture the Germans found time. They also found time to sow mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...Avoiding drafts, closing doors and windows will not keep out lightning. It is most likely to hit the chimney. Safest place in the house: the middle of a downstairs room...
Conversations. When the British obviously had Rommel on the run in Egypt last November, "Sitting On The Fence" voiced the national sentiments in a dialogue between Gubbins and The Chimney Sweep...
Last week stories of Lou Diamond's prowess in the Solomons began drifting back to the U.S. On Tulagi he demolished 14 Jap buildings with his trusty 81-mm. mortar. Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th. Lou Diamond won his bet. He was not so successful when a Jap destroyer came prowling around the island one morning before artillery had been hauled in, and planes were not available. His shell fell in the water behind...