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...field opposite, we saw the most terrible carnage. There were gliders upended on the posts and tree stumps left for that purpose by the Germans. There were dead men, and dead cattle and horses everywhere. The men [in our unit] had shot a couple of Germans, and we rolled them off the road into a ditch so that they wouldn't be run over. We walked single file up the road, as the verges could have been mined. There was sniping. I gave instructions that the section leader should give a burst of fire at any thick foliage...
...commanders here gave me a part of the city to defend," he says. "When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support." In the past month, three in his unit have been killed and five injured, he says. Other fighters say they are receiving help and advice from former soldiers of Saddam Hussein's army--but not, they insist, from the hard-core units that massacred Shi'ites after their abortive 1991 uprising...
...anonymous member of the Cornell defensive unit who broke junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s hand
...time leading scorer, who won six championships, has lately been focusing on a different kind of team. In his fifth book, Brothers in Arms (co-written with Anthony Walton), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 57, chronicles the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit that helped liberate dozens of towns in World War II. TIME's Sean Gregory talked last week with the Hall of Famer...
...have personal connections with them on many different levels. One of the guys in the unit was a police officer with my dad. I've known him since I was 9. One of the reasons I went to UCLA was Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson was the morale officer for the 761st. There are all kinds of little connections here, and they make it a very special story...