Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom: We were going through some hedgerows toward Saint-Lô today, Mom, and a German burp-gun got on me and I ducked in a ditch and set off a Teller mine, and a Tiger tank ran right over my ditch, and a squad of Boche infantry started heaving fragmentation grenades at me and I got to thinking, Mom, of old Bess and her about to have pups again, and Mom, we can't have them pups born into a world that ain't free and bright, can we, even...
...from some of the German's best divisions. There was a good chance the reeling Germans could not stop short of the hills below Avranches (their retreat was so speedy in the last 20 miles to Avranches that they had almost no time to employ their specialty: mine sowing...
...Japs had made plenty of mistakes in planning the defense of Guam. The Marine 3rd Division, advancing southwest from the northern beachhead, found elaborate mine fields and gun positions off the former U.S. Naval Station at Piti. Casualties would have been heavy if the marines had landed there. Instead, they smartly flanked these and many other defenses. But the enemy was still no setup. He was fighting the same kind of savage rear-guard action he had fought on Saipan, where 21,036 Jap corpses had been buried, where 3,414 Americans were dead or missing...
...cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused him to remark, "Pribichevich, the Russian spit is stronger than yours...