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Show HARRY A. MOYER 0 ember 22 2002 speak, on Cassino. Finally, I decide I can't get him, he s gone. I give up. o I br ak ff and start heading towards Gaeta point, back towards the lines. Well, as soon as I break off, all hell breaks loose underneath me. All small arms fire comes up, and all the light anti-aircraft, and I say, "Oh, Jesus!" I m about five miles inside the lines. So I'm down pretty low, and I know the 88's, they had batteries of 88's out there, and I know those guys are tracking me. Before that, you know, you always want to see the first burst of 88's- they'd have a battery of four. You'd see four bursts, and then you could take evasive action, you know. So you'd change your pattern about every three seconds, two to four seconds you'd change your direction and your altitude. Because it takes about that much time after the first burst for them to reload, load up, and get you. So if they're tracking you here, and you give them 1, 2, and then go, hopefully you've evaded their anticipation. So I'm down there, just about on the deck, and I'm coming back here. Then, of course, I guess all the German troops below see me coming, and they just "put put." So I'm not too concerned about that, I'm worried about the big boys, the 88's, you know, they've got batteries back there. So that's my big problem. And the small stuff is crackling all around me, and I'm what we call "jigging," I know I was very disciplined in what I had to do to get my butt out of this damn problem that I got myself into. That I had to just not panic, but I had to take this evasion, change my pattern ... BEN: And that's what you call jigging? HAR: Yeah, it's kind of a structured type of defense. So anyway, the 88's opened up, and 73 |
