Word: pillbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flanagan moved on shore aboard an amphibious tractor whose motor fouled the walkie-talkie, failed to cross an airfield on foot when mortar fire pinned the marines down. Later, carbine in hand, but walkie-talkie still functioning, he joined a group of marines flushing out a Jap pillbox...
Flanagan presently went on. The interruption had been caused by a Jap, flushed out of the pillbox, who had rushed Flanagan. The commentator had stopped talking long enough to shoot...
...Saint-LÔat the breaking of the Siegfried Line might not be too hard a task. But experienced generals like leathery Courtney Hodges knew differently. By now even the lowliest of his slugging G.I.s, up against the enemy among his earthworks, his forests, his staggered rows of pillbox forts, knew that the job was probably one of the toughest since Dday...
...this sort of defense, any Hitler youth, any old garrison service corpsman, any dummkopf may be able to stand in a concrete pillbox and press a trigger, till he is killed. But to make the West Wall effective, 30 to 45 divisions are needed, and a good proportion of them must be first-rate troops for counterattacking...
...place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound, firing a carbine with his right...