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...America's great war poet, because he was writing about a different set of realities with the same kind of immediacy. He wrote then too on conventional themes, but extraordinarily well--the loneliness of the individual soldier, the bursts of sudden violence. His much anthologized "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," ends, "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...could be said of him that he knew all about death before he died. Out of this knowledge came the most quoted poem of World War II, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner...
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead position...
...rifle bullet creased Naty's scalp. Moments later, his radio went dead again; blood from his wound had short-circuited his chest microphone. Naty led the final phase of the attack standing high in his turret and directing his tanks with hand signals. By the time he reached the center of Kallah, only three Shermans were still operating...