Word: pillbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lich's sports arena was an oval enclosure formed by a mound eight or ten feet high, in which were three football fields and a concrete swimming pool. U.S. artillery and planes dealt the defenders a merciless beating. A pillbox under a haystack was unmasked and heavily shelled. But when the infantry moved in across open fields, German mines and machine guns time & again drove them back. A bridge over which the defenders got reinforcements was knocked out by the Ninth's cannon every day. Every night the Germans put it up again...
Castle to Pillbox. They surrounded an old castle, sent a surrender ultimatum to the Nazi commander. He refused. When they attacked again the next day, they found that the garrison had slipped out in the night, to fight again somewhere else. But the Germans machine-dunned some of their own troops who popped out of pillboxes with white flags...
...Those copies of TIME have been invaluable. Not long ago, I found I had moved out to my observation post and had left the latest copy in the pillbox. You see I had been going out there under cover of darkness because it was a pretty risky run in daylight. My radio operator and I talked it over and I won the toss and took the chance of crawling back to get TIME. The Kraut is a lousy shot because he popped about 75 rounds out on each trip and didn't even come close. . . ." CHARLES GOLDBLATT New York...
Outnumbered ten to one, the British had no choice but to post machine guns at the exits from the square and pray for a quiet night. A stolid British sentry locked Daser's door from the outside and sat down to wait. When a German pillbox on the town's outskirts began to fire aimless machine-gun bursts, the British sent in to ask if the general would not stop it, since surrender had been agreed upon. Answered testy General Daser...
...officer in charge of that pillbox is the permanent president of the division's court-martial. He has already court-martialed so many for desertion or surrender that he can't very well surrender himself. I can't do anything about...