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...Hold On." Eight hours after the landing, MacArthur himself went ashore from a destroyer. He stood erect in a Higgins boat, wearing a trench coat and his gold-braided cap. Disdaining snipers, he traversed the beach, congratulating his troops...
...From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
Shells from the Hills. With dawn, the enemy found his eyes and his shells rocketed down from the hills beyond Cisterna. Enlisted men in the Command Post picked up trench shovels and bit deeper into their foxholes. Ahead we heard the screaming of the Nebelwerfer, followed by a rapid series of crunchings as shells landed close together...
They managed to have some fun; they took in the sights, had more dates than they had ever had in their lives. During occasional air raids, some achieved the WAC ambition: to bolt from barracks, crouch in a slit trench and duck back to bed at the "all clear" without really waking up. Instead of, "What's cooking?" they said, "Nervous in the service...
...leathernecks say they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...