Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well up the Rhone valley toward Lyons, a U.S. motorized cavalry reconnaissance troop, feeling the way for the main body, was stopped before a German resistance pocket. After sundown, TIME Correspondent John Osborne dropped in at the troop's farmhouse command post, saw the following little scene in the great drama...
...What I sense in this room is weariness-the final weariness which men can endure while they still move, talk when they have to, or even fight again if they must. That weariness is in their faces, their bodies, their khaki clothes clotted with dust and dried sweat. This troop has been constantly rolling and fighting for eight days and nights...
...Overall Situation." We learn more about what soldiers laughingly call the "the overall situation," which is strictly bad. German "S.P.s" (self-propelled artillery) are in the town and on the hills on two sides of us. They have accurately "zeroed" the only road which the troop can take, and , which it is now holding. That is, the sergeant morosely explains, the Huns' artillery can fan a fly's tail in mid-flight if it is so foolish as to venture up the road. Now and then a burst of gunfire, flatter and nearer than the noise...
...buzzing flies, the acrid, sickening stench made a horrible fantasy that our eyes could not accept. German tank in the road. Close by it were the three charred naked bodies of it crew. Near by, a troop carrier had plunged off the road. Its headless driver was still at the wheel...
...listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...