Word: pillboxed
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...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...
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...