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...curb the great manhunt sweeping France, Charles de Gaulle asked resisters behind the lines to give up their arms (women partisans first). He planned to draft the F.F.I.'s trigger-itchy young men into the regular French Army...
...Kiska, where two regiments went ashore in rubber boats with instructions to use nothing but their icepick-shaped stilettos on the Japs. There were no Japs there, but the Force made the most of it, learned more about living and marching in the field, refused to be tempted into "trigger-happy" firing...
...Lepsio, returning from the town, met Sheldon Lewis on the bridge. Says Sheldon, "I had a dozen Virginia reels out at a barndance this evening." Replied trigger fast Sam, "That's nothing. I had rum cokes all evening at the Merry-go-round...
...airstrip the Japs had evidently registered a direct mortar or artillery hit. The six Americans who had been occupying the hole had been blown to pieces and no more than half of any one man remained. One man's hand, ten feet from the hole, still held the trigger of his piece. Said the artillery captain: "That man loved his rifle...
...though military men are reluctant to admit the public to the reckoning). In Sicily the abnormally high losses obviously were the result in large part of command. Commanders had delayed in notifying ships and soldiers that friendly aircraft were expected. Once the misdirected fire had been begun, trigger-happy gunners became so infected they continued shooting even after their officers had shouted: "Cease firing...