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...when the last war came I went over to France as a machine gunner with that same 4th Division which is now fighting at Montebourg. We did not talk about slogans then and our men probably don't talk about them now. We thought we knew what we were fighting for, although it was hard to hold onto beliefs when boys we loved were killed before our eyes...
...else (he was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899, the son of a successful novelist and playwright-grew tip in St. Petersburg-finished school there just before the revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant at $13 a week-lost his job when...
...Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
Others serving include a chief machinist's mate in the Coast Guard, a machine gunner and a flight officer in the Canadian Army, a major in the British Army, an officer in the American Merchant Marine, and two members of the American Field Service. Of the 92 now serving, 80 are commissioned officers...
While all this was going on there were snipers in the buildings near us and they kept things from getting dull. George Waitman, my gunner, knocked out the two guns that were bothering us most and we moved over to another street looking for some targets...