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Last scene: When John is brought in from Dieppe on a stretcher, his mother opens the hospital window so that he may hear the band music of the newly arrived U.S. troops. With fierce pride she describes them to her dying British son: "All the strong young boys, beautiful and proud with dreams. . . ." "God will never forgive us . . ,." adds Cinemactress Dunne, "if we break faith with our dead again...
...Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down Trocchio, massed to crash the outer Cassino fortifications...
Surprised stretcher-bearers found him barely conscious, but showing no fractures or paralysis. Dumfounded doctors gave him morphine and atropine to ease his pain and keep him quiet. In a few minutes he was so restless that his arms and legs had to be strapped to the stretcher. X-rays showed that he had only a compression fracture of one vertebra in the middle of his spine...
...snipers and machine-gunners were firing. In a little revetment was the headquarters of Major Henry P. ("Jim") Crowe, a tough, red-mustached veteran who had risen from the Marine ranks to command of one of the assault battalions. Near by passed a parade of wiremen, riflemen, mortarmen and stretcher bearers...
...Stretcher bearers carrying out casualties often have to wade waist-deep in muddy water. The jungle stinks with a dead, musty odor which is even worse in the forward areas where the bodies of the Japs lie buried...