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From some place far away came a whining roar, and the whole sky seemed to be screaming toward us. Something like the sound of a dozen railway trains thrashed overhead, and the slope back of the tanks erupted. Soldiers looked up wide-eyed, and one said: "That must be that six-barreled rocket gun." (Prisoners had told us of this new German weapon, some with six barrels, some with five, on a revolving, electrically driven cylinder, firing five or six rocket shells almost simultaneously.) Our Honey tanks began climbing up the slope toward us, "Goddamn them," said an infantry officer...
Below us was a deep ravine clothed in low bushes. On the other side of the ravine was a steep hill-the one which Captains Kelly and Belisle had already gone ahead to take. Kelly's company and a company from another battalion were on the slope nearest us; Belisle's company was on the rear slope, out of our sight...
...German tanks were skillfully handled. Lingering in hull-down position on the back of one slope, they would fire for a time. Then, moving in different diagonal directions, they would race over the top of the slope and come down and halfway up the next slope, again in hull-down position...
...going up and stop that," said the Colonel. "I don't know what's going on, but there's no use waiting here until we find out. Let's go and take that hill." Without another word, he plunged down the slope at the head of the company and then headed up White House Hill...
...between two hills we came into full view of the enemy, who could now strike us with enfilading fire. Some soldiers drove into a narrow ditch to ascend the slope, but the Colonel strode straight up the hill. As we climbed everyone grew faint, turning pale and looking at each other in the naked frankness of misery...