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Carroll Steinbeck letters to parents, September - October, 1944

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 2

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and took a good bath. This was plenty against regulations but it sure felt good and there was not much risk. We really had a good sleep until six o'clock the next morning. Then the fun really started. We attacked cement pill-boxes with every weapon we had. We were all firing real ammo. and what a racket we made. There was artillery, bazookas cannon, anti-tank guns, gernade launchers, rifles carbines, 60 mm & 81 mm mortars, bangalore torpedos, machine guns flame throwers, pull charges (to blow the doors off the pill-box). All these were going at the same time for about thirty minutes. It was really quite a show and we were within one hundred yds of the explosions at times. Of course we were in a ditch to keep from getting hit but the stuff sure flew over our heads. It was the most exciting problem we have run yet. I was firing my mortar at about one round every twenty seconds for nearly five minutes. Had quite a time. We got back to camp about three o'clock and had the afternoon to clean our stuff. That night we had to mark all of our clothing.
 
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