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...They splashed at us from behind and above and whipped past so close you could have snatched the swastika from their sides. Our ship was lurching under their wallops like a beaten boxer. One shell plowed into the top turret and went off in the face of the gunner, Technical Sergeant K. R. Aulenbach of Reading, Pa. Between attacks the crew dragged him out and laid him down for first aid but he was already gone; he died soon after we landed...
...German fighters had attacked General Doolittle's Flying Fortress. Unwilling to risk Doolittle & staff in combat if it could be avoided, Pilot Lieut. John C. Summers dived toward the sea. At 50 feet the Fortress leveled off and shot for the land. Fifty-caliber bullets from the top turret sent one of the German fighters limping away. Two others attacked. The Fortress copilot sagged to the floor with a bullet in his shoulder. Jimmy Doolittle yanked his soft khaki cap down on his balding head, climbed into the copilot's seat. The gunners fought off two other Germans...
...hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine gun, sir," said the private. "That's not a machine gun," Patton roared. "It's a dirty Nazi bastard...
...small, dark, bright-eyed soldier from the other tank's turret was almost hysterical. He spoke through chattering teeth: "Did the others get out? Oh, Jesus, I hope they get them...
Then he saw the white infantry. The foot soldiers were coming up through the long grass toward the road. Bailey waved his arms at the tank column and shouted, pointing to the infantrymen. A tank commander turned, saw the danger. He slammed down the cover of his turret. The tank spun around on its treads and a section of Bailey's fence went out. Half a dozen other tanks followed, charging through the grass with bursts of blank cartridges. It was over in a minute. An umpire pointed to the infantry: "They finished...