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...rifles and machine guns. You going to let one machine gun hold you up? We're not getting anywhere by not moving. We'll be here another year at this rate. Why can't you get 'em going? Open up with every rifleman. They can't hit every man there." We started walking directly up the road until we came to a narrow pass at the very top of the hill and looked out at the battle scene below us. On our right was a high long ridge that led straight up to Troina...
...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...RIFLEMAN DODD AND THE GUN-C. S. Forester-Little, Brown...
Honor and Horror. Rifleman Dodd, cut off from his regiment in Portugal, spent the winter in the scorched-earth portion of that country which Wellington had left to the French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...
...Rifleman Dodd, under the title Death to the French, was published in England in 1932; The Gun, in the U.S. and England, in 1933. Both were distributed in one volume last year to Readers' Club subscribers...