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...grade-B movie. Rockets go thump, thump, thumping out of them and bursting along the shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many 20-mm. autoguns are hammering like runaway riveters and weaving red lines of tracer shells alongshore like thin angry fingers prying and poking into every patch that might shelter an enemy...
...some of the shacks there was ammunition - rifle and pistol clips careless men had left behind. These popped everywhere. In one shack a store of tracer bullets went up in the air, casting white, blue and red arching pencils like Roman candles over all the hills...
Until the Sun Rises. Wrote Nazi Correspondent Hermann Niekamp from the Crimea: "Tracer bullets light the night. Machine guns suddenly stop. . . . Then ghostlike figures come darting. A hand grenade falls close by, then another and another. The German soldiers in the trenches know death is only a few yards away and grit their teeth...
...Author Tregaskis, a Harvard-educated newspaperman who was 25 at the time of Pearl Harbor, reported the hour-by-hour, day-by-day life in the Pacific Islands and the Battle of the Tenaru River-a life of jungle and Indian warfare, machine guns, snipers, accidents, wounds and Japanese tracer bullets making bright red networks of visible death overhead...
...Chips, U.S. Army dog-gallantry in action. After landing at Blue Beach Chips and his handler advanced 300 yd. inland under a flurry of flares and tracer bullets. . . . Suddenly a hidden machine gun began firing from the hut on troops on the beach. Unhesitatingly Chips wrenched the leash from his handler's hand, dashed into the hut, teeth bared, and vigorously attacked...