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Americans are skillful at using automatic rifles, grenade rifles and trench mortars. U.S. observation of only one or two Japanese soldiers may result in sudden and concentrated trench-mortar fire...
...said, 'Mop oop!' I don't know German and I figured that might sound like 'Get up!' . . . The Jerry put down his gun and gave up. Then I looked across a field and there were six Jerries looking at us from a trench. ... I walked over shouting 'Oop mop!' and by golly, out they came...
...That Night I Dug a Trench." Terry had had one blood transfusion and was definitely out of danger. Five correspondents gave blood for Gunn, who was much more gravely injured and the nurses unquestionably saved his life. I didn't get any work done that day. Most of it I sat around the hospital holding my big head in my hands and waiting to give blood if they wanted type zero. That night I dug myself a slit trench and slept...
...Thursday morning 'hate' [shelling period] was very heavy and deplorably few duds. I counted no shells in 35 minutes. ... It seemed every time we'd try to get some food the shelling would start again. You'd duck in a trench to get a cup of tea, then spill it diving back into your own trench. . . . Our trenches would cave in too unless we could reinforce them with boards...
...west, the British and Canadians were on traditional ground. There was only a skirmish near the graves of Canadians who had stormed the beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud and awful memory...