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Just 100 yards from the outskirts of Sainte Germaine the Germans saw us and walloped a mighty big shell over at us. From the cover of a friendly but too shallow ditch we sat the next half-hour...
Beyond, in the open field, the bodies of some of the American gunners were being laid in rows beside the command tent. Farther on there were nine dead Japs in a ditch. One of them still clutched a stick with a bayonet tied to it. Nearby, beside a burning jeep, lay the body of a lieutenant. Corporal Anthony Kouma told us he had begged to be shot because he was so badly wounded. Kouma had said: "You'll be all right, sir," but the officer had died within a few minutes...
...zigzag ditch about 25 feet long there were 56 Jap bodies. They were stacked four deep at some points. Many were laid open by the shell blasts and the blood of most of them had not yet started to congeal...
Death in a Ditch. Ernie himself was a little slow to recognize the nature of the new assignment. At first he tried to be a more or less conventional war correspondent, covering the news as others did. The change began one day in Africa when the press corps was invited to meet Admiral Darlan. Scripps-Howard cabled him to be sure to attend. He was hurrying across an airfield to the interview when a swarm of Stukas swooped down, began splattering bullets around him. He dived into a ditch just behind a G.I. When the strafing was over he tapped...
Pyle sat through the interview in a daze, went back to his tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...