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Show thr ugh it to e if it sh t good th n you go back t y ur unit. that w th fir t time. Then the next time it wasn't quite that way. There was a tank up ther . h r was a pillbox. Now they support each other, pillboxes. They' ll have three pillboxes, and they're built so that these two can fire on this one, and this one can fire, so they support each other. JAS: Okay, makes sense. BILL: But if you break one, if you breach one, you can get the other too. Okay, these two pillboxes were pinning us down. And this pillbox wasn't shooting. We hadn't had any fire from it, and we'd been there for a couple of hours. Now, I'm the platoon sergeant, and I said, "Okay, I want a base of fire on those two pillboxes." The base of fire means you start shooting as quick as you can. It doesn't matter where the bullets are going. If it goes six feet over your head, it sounds like it's going about that far over your head. Boy, it would shoom past. It'd scare the shit out of you. When you do that, I'm going to go up and get in that pillbox, and then I can fire through the embrasure, through their embrasure, and they can't hit me. I said, "So start your fire." So they started firing, and I got up. Oh, the pillbox was maybe to across the street. I got pretty close to it, and I thought, oh, this can't be true! A barrel of a machine gun sticks out of the embrasure and here I am running standing up! I thought, oh god, I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm close enough that he couldn't drop the barrel, because those embrasures are only about his high, and he couldn't drop the barrel down far enough, but he could rake the top of this shell hole, and I couldn't get up. So just before I fell in that 113 |
