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...sound of machine guns was like an urgent tapping at a door. "Those ain't ours," said a soldier. "Sounds like Hermans," said another voice, referring to the fast-firing guns of the Hermann Göring Division. Vaguely alarmed, we crested the slope and looked out into a narrow alley of plain, hugged by hills-high ones to the left, low gentle slopes to the right. Dead ahead another hill blocked the end of the valley...
...Colonel, his short legs pumping up & down with extraordinary speed, churned straight up the slope toward the firing. A queer glimmer of a smile played around his lips. Three riflemen, an officer called Jack, two soldiers with walkie-talkies and I scrambled after him, while the rest of the battalion flew across the lower slopes...
Next to a mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth...
...rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without . . . A narrow path comes like a ribbon over a hill miles away, down a long slope, across a creek, up a slope and over another hill. All along the length of this ribbon there is now a thin line of men. For four days and nights they have fought hard, eaten little, washed none, and slept hardly at all. Their nights have been violent with attack...
...Friday morning B Company made a dash for the nearest slope. The doughboys crossed the wheat field and started up the steep side. Then all hell broke loose...