Word: pillbox
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...there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close to the beach, opened up on targets as small as one Jap sniper or one pillbox mound. It was precision firing, the shells often landing less than 50 yards from the Marines. If the high explosives did not wreck many of the fortifications, they did strip away most of the islands' palm fronds...
...such meeting, a strange, fierce shout rang in the darkness. The invaders who heard the shout dropped to the ground, saw a pillbox on the skyline. The voice called again; it was no longer fierce, but high-pitched, panic-stricken...
...wants to surrender," a U.S. soldier guessed. "Surrender! Surrender!" the soldiers shouted. The owner of the voice in the pillbox did not appear...
Finally an Italian-American soldier shouted: "Veni qui." A figure then crept from the pillbox on all fours, ran down the hill, screaming and sobbing. He was seized, searched, left behind. That particular unit had met its first Italian in Sicily...
...ship landed safely in a rice paddy and the crew fired it. They could see lanterns, hear voices of Chinese peasants who were too terrified to approach. It was raining sheets, but Fitzhugh's boys slept in a ditch until morning, then took refuge in an abandoned pillbox built by the Chinese Army...