Word: snipering
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...fighting was bitter and ruthless. German snipers potted at everyone in sight, not sparing first-aid men. Hill 165, above the town, changed hands six times. A New Zealand lieutenant found his Tommy gun jammed just as he flushed a German sniper: he used it as a club to bash in the man's head...
...away their last drops of precious drinking water to wounded men, saw them in the thick of battle giving away their last cigarets and bulging out the empty packs so their buddies wouldn't suspect it was the last one. They joked incessantly. In the face of whistling sniper-fire one boyish Marine was seen dashing madly across the beach-he was chasing a chicken for supper...
Only after another day's pounding were the main island targets assaulted. When the troops got ashore, there was some machine-gun and sniper fire from debris and coconut trees. There were a few stubborn pockets of real resistance. But mostly there were only twisted remnants of coastal guns, shattered pillboxes, charred and broken Jap bodies. The defenders who survived the bombardment seemed dazed, frightened...
...dead, many of whom had been in the water for two days. It was more gruesome than I can describe. This was no dignified burial-a man's last ceremony should be dignified but this wasn't. The bulldozer, whose driver paid scant attention to the sniper who fired at him all the while, scooped a hole three feet deep. The marines, not even covered by a blanket, were laid in the hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them and that was all there was to it (until burial parties got around later to a formal...
...still out there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close to the beach, opened up on targets as small as one Jap sniper or one pillbox mound. It was precision firing, the shells often landing less than 50 yards from the Marines. If the high explosives did not wreck many of the fortifications, they did strip away most of the islands' palm fronds...