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Show Rose (1/25/83) page ~3 Mr. K .r. R and I can't remember the division that made the first landing .•• Did you ma~e the landing the way you practiced it? Oh, yeah, we made it, but we weren't under pressure, because these guys were in 2 days already, you see, and the beaches were cleared. We did everything except run for foxholes, you know. When we got out of there we stood around and waited for our groups to gather and all that sort of thing, and every so often a great big God damn shell would go by over head, and that's the first time you hear it coming at you presumably. Now, I want to make that clear - the shots that I ran into the first day didn't even land within 3 miles of me. You can hear them after they're past, you can't hear them coming. That creates sound, you see, not as they pass over but when they're already past you. The sound comes off those shell like a funnel, you see. If I know my aerodynamics correctly, that~ the way it goes. But, they weren't close, but there's a funny • feeling that that m•ght be ••• that's when you get your first queezy feelings about what the hell am I doing there. I want you to know something, I never proved to be a hero. Anyway, 2 days before we landed there's a change in assign~ents. My staff sergeant was given com~and of my survey team, and I was given the ammunition train. Hells fire, I'd been so far removed from ammunition, and I didn't know which end of a shell you rammed into the gun first. course, that's overstated, but that's how far away I was from the howitzers themselves in my operation. The ammunition train is th~ usually comprised of every guy in the outfit/ ever had a stockade record. It was all the hardheads, all the guys you couldn't control, it was everything like that. They guys that couldn't Of |
