Evening star., 1944-02-13

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some going about as usual.
range (and there were supposed to
be well over 200 pieces in this clas-
sification opened up and fired about
"a rounds.
Truly Wonderful Sound.
AS usual, We were the most for
ward artillery and when our guns
were quiet for moment we could
hear the shells from the guns be-
hind us swooshing over our heads.
Your own artillery going over your
head sounds wonderful.
Then at 1900 hours A36s On.
vaders) began to appear-36 of
them-and dive bomb the town. l
have seen Stukas, Me1Oes and
FWl90s bomb, but never anything
like our A36. They would swoop out
OF the sky like a hawk. then sud-
denly pull up, and the spot that they
would have hit if they hadn't pulled
out was suddenly a tremendous ex-
plosion-soon the whole town was
obliterated by smoke and dust.
The planes left and at 1915 the
artillery started again, at 1880 36
more A36 aircraft came in, then at
l345 the artillery shelled again.
That was a real show. But the Ger
mans did not move out, When the
1st Division infantry, whom we had
been supporting, tried to go in :hey
Weer again repulsed. So, starting at
l645, the artillery and air force
pulled the same show all over again.
The 1st Division finally took the
town that night.
Road Uttered With Dead.
The next noon we went out on
another reconnaissance. The road
was Uttered with German dead, but
what amazed me was, when we got
to Troina the civilians were still
there, some going about life as usual,
some digging in the debris. The
town itself was shambles, very few
OF the buildings were unmarked. 1
don't see how any were. That eve
ming We moved into position north
east of Troina and the following
morning l sent my sergeants into
town to see the havoc wrecked by
the action the previous day. I.
would have liked to have sent all my
men, but again we went out on
and that evening we
moved again.
That move amused me. The 1st
Division infantry had pulled through
town and bivouaced nearby to catch
a Well-earned rest. The field artil-
lery battalion commander had been
unable to get the information that
he wanted on the Germans where
abouts from his G2, so he stopped
in at the infantry regimental head
quarters to ask them. They didn't
know either, so he just took good
guess and away we went looking.
Finally we came to nice hill and,
in approved military manner, taking
full advantage of nonexistent cover
we stood up on top of the hill
spreading out our maps to glare in
the sun, and tried to deduce where
the Germans were. I wasn't in the
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