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...deepest point last week the Anzio beachhead ran about eight miles inland. The Germans had dragged up 210-mm. guns. Virtually every yard of the area was exposed to artillery fire as well as bombing. Even field hospitals (plainly marked with Red Cross emblems) were in range of the guns...
...mm. and .303-caliber bullets: "That's where they separate the men from the boys...
...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...between the skipper and copilot. The cockpit was a mass of gore-I never saw such a sight, blood everywhere. The copilot was hit in both legs and while I was applying tourniquets to him, a 20-mm. hit the skipper in the left ankle and carried away his foot. But the copilot's controls had been shot out so the skipper had to fly her with one foot...
Other vital statistics in Forrestal's report revealed that the 45,000-ton Iowas carry 148 antiaircraft barrels, ranging from 20 mm. up to five-inch dual purpose guns. The first of the 35,000-ton North Carolina class, commissioned in 1941 after a two-decade battleship-building holiday, carried 50-some...