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...courtyards, hastily covered with sacking or blankets, lie hundreds of corpses. Some died in the first day's fighting and had sprawled in the blazing sun for four days. The stench was overpowering. Everywhere on the fringes of the casbah and inside it were houses wrecked by mortar and artillery fire. Swarms of large black flies buzzed over pools of blood in the streets. For 24 hours after the ceasefire, ambulances, lorries and mule carts brought out the dead and dying. In Bizerte hospital, the wounded lay shoulder to shoulder on mattresses in the corridors. From a personal count...
Taylor eventually was wounded in the rump by a mortar fragment while making a tour of a forward area against the angry advice of a sergeant, who warned of the alert enemy. When Taylor was hit, the sergeant stormed up to his rescue with an attitude that was anything but solicitous: "Goddammit. General, now do you believe me?" Taylor spent ten days in the hospital, but made his staff keep his name off the wounded list for fear he would lose his command...
...could find it: in Italy he often sketched on the backs of the Mussolini portraits that hung in most Italian homes. "I was no hero," says Mauldin. "I wasn't leading a perilous life." But he got close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured by a mortar shell fragment in fighting near Cassino in 1943. Applying for a fresh Band-Aid, he was handed a Purple Heart to go with it-and turned the incident into an incisive cartoon. "Just gimme a coupla aspirin," says Willie to the Medical Corpsman offering him a medal. "I already...
...down again at the peace talks in Geneva last week, on the hopeful assumption that a cease-fire was at last in effect in Laos, when the news arrived from Ban Hat Bo, a village near the Mekong River in central Laos. After a heavy mortar barrage that lasted two hours, 1,000 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers had attacked to a frenzied blowing of bugles. The Ban Hat Bo garrison fled, along with their five U.S. military advisers. One of them noted bitterly that the Communist assault, with its tooting bugles and the human-wave technique, was "Korea...
...months. Every part of the apse was measured, every stone numbered and painstakingly packed in boxes. At The Cloisters, the stones were treated with a secret preservative to protect them against the cold, rain and city smoke. In January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...