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...that?" said Matthews. "One of my companies took the wrong road in the dark and attacked that slope right in the face of machine-gun fire. The company commander was wounded twice, but he pushed on and smashed that position. Now," he added, as we walked back toward the culvert, "there's only one officer left in that company." The officer in question was Lieut. Melvin Groves. We found him lying by the culvert with a black look on his face...
Night Vigil. At 9:30 Captain Alan Morehouse, once a schoolteacher in Darien, Conn., led 90 men of K Company out on the road and headed over the slope of our hill down into a ravine and up toward another hill in front of Troina...
...radios, when a voice called us and said that a shell had landed squarely in the middle of the culvert we had just left. The Dawn Attack. We sort of fitfully dozed for a while. At 5 o'clock the snapping of rifle bullets coming across our slope woke me and I heard Chuck talking to Morehouse on the phone...
...line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
Captain Wozenski came down the slope. Here & there the men gathered to talk over who had been killed and who had been wounded up there. Captain Wozenski shouted in a clear, deep voice: "All right. Let's not have these great goddam gatherings. Spread...