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...been digging a foxhole for the night when one man shouted: "There is a Jap under those logs!" The command post security officer was dubious, but he handed concussion grenades to a man and told him to blast the Jap out. Then a sharp ping of the Jap bullet whistled out of the hole and from under the logs a skinny little fellow-not much over 5 ft. tall -jumped out waving a bayonet...
...tell the attackers that the fight was over? The paratroopers hung their own shirts from the windows for recognition signals. The firing only grew heavier. They yelled to cut it out, but their friends could not hear. Then a U.S. paratrooper found a bullet-pierced German bugle. He thrust it out the window. Above the firing rang the shrill familiar notes of "chow call...
Fortunately, simple bullet wounds do not hurt much at first. For more severe wounds, Medical Corpsmen are ready on the battlefield with dope. If a wounded man can walk, he is bandaged and told where to go. If he cannot walk, litter bearers are sent for him. He gets some temporary patching at the battalion aid station and more at the clearing station...
...There were three pistol shots from somewhere. The tanks stopped and I saw one of the infantrymen pointing his gun down a side road. There a helmetless German stumbled out into the open, hands in the air. His right wrist had been shattered by a bullet and from his upraised arm the hand dangled by a few bloody shreds of raw flesh. A civilian came up, searched him. Our troops waved him to the rear, went...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...