Word: culvert
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...picked our way up the hill until we came out by a road culvert where Lieut. Colonel Hugh Matthews had set up his battalion headquarters. Weary, grey and pinched-looking, he was whittling nervously on a stick...
...that?" said Matthews. "One of my companies took the wrong road in the dark and attacked that slope right in the face of machine-gun fire. The company commander was wounded twice, but he pushed on and smashed that position. Now," he added, as we walked back toward the culvert, "there's only one officer left in that company." The officer in question was Lieut. Melvin Groves. We found him lying by the culvert with a black look on his face...
...radio two nights ago said Troina had been captured," a lieutenant said. "We must have taken Troina; our broadcasters never lie." By now it was dark and we prepared for our nightly attack on Troina. On the opposite side of the road at the other end of the culvert, Major Chuck Horner, whose battalion was to put in the attack, had set up his phones...
...bunched up on a hillside before the culvert and each one paused to get at a distance from the man ahead...
...soldiers paused in the column, I said to them: "How you doin'?" A big fellow sighed and answered: "This is tough. Can't sleep in nighttime for moving. Can't sleep in daytime for shelling." Around midnight, Horner took his unit out of the culvert and moved farther uphill, preparing to follow Morehouse if he was successful. We had not been long in our new spot, and had just set up our own telephone and radios, when a voice called us and said that a shell had landed squarely in the middle of the culvert...