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...military plates, and headed for Checkpoint Charlie, where uniformed Western servicemen can drive in and out without Communist inspection. It worked like a charm. As the car was waved through to West Berlin, neither the passengers nor the East German Grepo noticed Karl-Heinz' only technical error: the sergeant's stripes on his sleeves were sewn on upside down...
...dobe-wall him," he shot the firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots of sotol, a distillation of yucca that makes tequila seem like celery tonic. When they were suitably swacked, Sergeant Miller took a flying leap to the nearest horse and "hit the Rio Grande so hard he knocked it dry for 50 feet." He left his camera behind. No matter. No film in it, anyway...
...There were Viet Cong everywhere-in the grass, in the trees and bushes, and in holes. The guy in front of me was killed. The guy behind the guy behind me was killed. There were all kinds of wounds-head, chest, abdomen, legs and arms. The captain and the sergeant major, they were killed. We formed a perimeter-really just a circle of people trying to protect themselves. "That's where I treated the wounded. I was just doing...
...Army understandably thinks that Staff Sergeant James Reid, 45, a World War II truck driver who was assigned to the Medical Corps, did more than just his job. His recommendation for a Silver Star notes that he kept on tending the wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down a tree he was using for cover on that terrible night in the la Drang Valley. Of the 21 men whom Reid treated, only one died. Says Captain William Shucart of St. Louis, surgeon for the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, 2nd Battalion: "I was pinned down elsewhere, and Reid...
Thus, gas propels Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...