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...Spotlight. "I was fourth or fifth in line, and while I waited to get out I got scared. ... I ran for the trench, feeling as though I were in a huge spotlight and sure that the bombers were watching me, personally...
...face down in the slit trench with the brim of my helmet in the soft ground, as close to the earth as I could get, and held my breath. . . . When the bombs went off and I realized that I hadn't been hit, I found I couldn't draw a full breath. My chest felt contracted and tight. I was cold...
...Germans had dug elaborate trench systems in and around the villages, where ordinary-looking houses covered 5-ft. concrete outer walls, 2-ft. partitions, deep cellars. Sometimes, when the trenches were under U.S. shell fire, the Germans ran into the cellars, then back into the trenches when the firing stopped. The Yanks had to clean out every village with bayonets and grenades...
...night last August a mob of Negro stevedore soldiers at Fort Lawton, Wash., stormed into a barracks occupied by paroled Italian prisoners of war. The Negroes, brooding over special privileges shown the POWs, were armed with "knives, clubs, trench shovels, axes, stones." After MPs had quelled the brawl, Italian Guglielmo Olivotto was found in a gully near by, hanged by the neck and dead...
...took out my glasses to observe the situation we received a trench-mortar shelling seven to eight yards away...