Word: spandaus
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...historians have spilled much ink on the difficulties of pushing the German army out of Italy. Mowat writes sparely and in the blood of his friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops. Spandaus and Schmeissers perforate them; eighty-eights and "Moaning Minnies" dismember them. The term "enfilading fire" recurs. It means that the enemy can spray shells and bullets up and down one's position as if he were watering a garden...
...ahead were lousy with mines. The mines had been laid hastily on top of the ground and crudely covered with hay from the stacks. A section of engineers was sent forward to clear a path, but on approaching the area they were shot at by self-propelled guns and Spandaus which covered the ground with cross fire. They had a close call and were pretty shaken when they got back to our foxholes after having crawled 200 yards along a muddy ditch. One of them slumped into my hole, out of breath. I said: "A bit tough out there...
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