Word: rapido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week the two sides arranged a 105-minute truce to remove the dead and wounded. Seventy-five U.S. medics recrossed the Rapido. As one of the wounded was lifted into a litter, he grinned weakly and said: "Look, I have maid service...
...night, after two days of preparatory shelling, orders came to attack the enemy positions across the Rapido. A thick haze rose from the ground, and through it men stumbled toward the river. Here & there, the earth heaved and roared, and exploding mines killed and maimed men. Many others were killed in boats or on a narrow, ice-coated footbridge. But some got across and dug their foxholes. The haze was still thick...
...that afternoon, the ammunition had run out. German counterattacks were in force, and the U.S. position was untenable. Retreat was ordered. Some swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...