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Show popped him right there. There's another one there but h got burnt aft rIp pp d him. There's this tent, and I pulled the tent fly open like that with my rifl and h r tw doctors and an operating table, working on this guy - they turned around and look d lik that while he was operating on this wounded Chinese. Well, I left them. At ten o'clock we were so far back, we were into their hospitals. Boy, that's back! We were way back! But I thought, boy, when he said jump off the attack, there isn't going to be enough left of us to put in a phone booth. God! But, I guess somebody knew what they were doing, because boy it sure worked! God, that truck when I set it off- I still think about that and laugh. I mean, I wasn't, oh yeah, I was in danger, but I had got down the hill and they'd missed me, so I wasn't hurt. I knew damn well if I got started running, they weren't going to catch me, because they had to come down the hill still, and you can't run fast down a hill without falling. JAS: Right. BILL: Anyway, I'd be running on dry ground, and they'd be stepping and sliding in crap. You're going to have to erase half of this, aren't you?! JAS: [Laughing] Certainly not! Sounds like mortal danger to me. BILL: Yeah. You know, I still think back on that and laugh like hell. Another time, we just come off the lines, so I had my whole squad, thirteen of us, under ponchos. We'd buttoned them all together and made one huge tent. My squad stayed together. We were all together, always. Well, we'd picked up an extra sound power somewhere. That's a phone, and it's got combat wire on it, and you just hook it into the wire, and your voice generates enough power to talk on. 83 |
