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...Point-blank!" he said, "pointblank, sir. We had to get out the best way we could...
...foot soldiers fought across the tiny, cut-up fields, over and down the tough, earth-mound Norman hedges, along the ditches and sunken roads. They fought with hand grenades, shot each other point-blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...
...turning point came about 1 p.m. on the second day. Millions of bullets, hundreds of tons of explosive poured into the stubborn Japs. Strafing planes and dive-bombers raked the island. Light and medium tanks got ashore, rolled up to fire high explosive charges point-blank into the snipers' slots of enemy forts. Artillery got ashore, laid down a pattern over every yard of the Jap positions. Ceaseless naval gunfire became more accurate...
Last week tanks were brought in and the necessary extermination was being administered by explosive shells thrown into the bunkers at point-blank range. At week's end tanks equipped with flame throwers spread more intense terror among the bunkers. The Jap could no longer escape by sneaking up so close to the American line as to avoid the bursts of explosives...