O'Shell fires, and it is like every weapon is wired together. They all go off at once. Tracers like laser beams streak out and I see them cut clean through the Chinese. I hear them scream, and they go down like stalks of corn before a corn cutter. It is only seconds and the mortars start to rain in.
Artillery follows, and the draw becomes an orange-grey hell.
The noise is deafening. I am frozen, spellbound by the sight and sound of it. I heard 500 or more. All I know is that the draw was littered with dead as far as I could see. Losses were less than 1 per 1000 sorties.