Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan called for an attack from the beach. Our outfit, led by the first unit, was to shove north three miles and cut the highway west of Cisterna. On the extreme right flank another outfit was to cut No. 7 east of town. Still another was to barrelhouse straight up the middle and take the town itself...
...outfit's commanding colonel got the first bad news a few minutes later. His first unit had been stopped cold south of the highway; its commander had been wounded...
...Colonel laid down the telephone and chewed on his pipe. Lieut. Colonel Roy Moore was working another telephone. "Why aren't you firing your artillery?" he snapped. He was told that the forward observer had not been heard from; the unit had lost its own artillery eyes...
...first unit called. It was the wounded commander on the phone. "Hurt bad, boy?" the Colonel asked, then listened for a long time. "Well, see if you can't get your men moving again," said the Colonel, and he laid down the phone. "He's still on his feet," he said...
...Advancing?" Headquarters called; the outfit in the center had shoved right up to the outskirts of the town. But it was exposed like a naked finger there. Our unit had been stopped and the outfit on the right had been slow in jumping off. The Colonel got the first unit again and roared: "Are you advancing? Wotthehell you doing, digging into defensive positions?" He called the second unit: "I want that first goddamned platoon up north to help. Now get 'em going quick...