Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horner spoke to him: "Listen, Al, you got 90 rifles and machine guns. You going to let one machine gun hold you up? We're not getting anywhere by not moving. We'll be here another year at this rate. Why can't you get 'em going? Open up with every rifleman. They can't hit every man there." We started walking directly up the road until we came to a narrow pass at the very top of the hill and looked out at the battle scene below us. On our right was a high...
...ambushed. We tried to warn him, but our walkie-talkie couldn't pick him up. The Colonel was very worried. He conferred with Captain Bernard Kotin, an artillery observer, about the possibility of hitting the enemy without hitting our own men. "At least we could burn 'em out of that white house if you could land a shell on top there," said the Colonel to Kotin. "Pretty narrow target, though," he added. Kotin decided to try a smoke shell first and gave the range...
...Look at 'em run," yelled the Colonel. We thought that Kelly's company had been saved. We were wrong...
...music the radio abruptly squealed. The regimental headquarters wanted to know if the Colonel had any news. Pete shouted this to the Colonel, who had reappeared. "It's all screwed up," said the Colonel. "I don't know what's going on. Tell 'em to send the Air Corps." Turning to me, he said: "This sure is something...
...give them the aerial willies. So far, the quickness of mistress of ceremonies Arlene Francis, radio & stage actress (The Doughgirls), has stood them in good stead. One losing serviceman, who won an unanticipated $15 consolation prize, gleefully grabbed the microphone and advised his favorite bartender: "Hello, Clyde, set 'em up down there!" Miss Francis recovered with: "He means Maxwell House Coffee, of course...