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Our distracted platoon commander, Lieutenant John A. Norman, with some assistance from non-coms had to order most of us to take cover. I can still see his lean, six-foot figure, with his Lincoln esque features marked with concern, as he herded his fighting game-cocks to wards shelter, pausing only to post necessary details to stand to on the alert should an attack follow the strafing.
Of two dugouts on the forward slope of Rocroi Hill I was quartered in the larger one. I was not the only one to dawdle getting there. There was so much to see. Among other things that Claimed my interest was the bark of our own one pounder in position higher up on the hill. Even as I watched, a huge black missile wailed overhead, and striking squarely on the. Position, burst with an awful deto nation. A giant black mushroom rose on the spot, seemed to hold its shape for seconds, then cascaded earthward. Earth rained about me as a tree and the gun plummeted. Sixteen years later at a ban quet with Arthur Cunningham, late Comptroller of (continued on page 48)
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0243067704
- ISBN 13 9780243067701
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages64
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