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Название книги: Citizen Soldiers [Condensed]
Автор(ы): Stephen Ambrose
Жанр: История
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Citizen-Soldiers-_Condensed_-199192.html
There were some unusual junior officers on the front. One was Lieutenant Ed Gesner of the 4th Infantry Division. He knew survival tricks that he taught his platoon, such as how to create a foxhole in frozen ground: he shot eight rounds into the same spot, dug out the loose dirt with his trench knife, placed a half stick of TNT in the hole, lit the fuse, ran, hit the dirt, got up, ran back, and dug with his trench shovel. Within minutes a habitable foxhole.The junior officers coming over from the States were another matter. Pink cheeked youth, they were bewildered by everything around them.
Prologue
FIRST LIGHT came to Ste. Mere-Eglise around 0510. Twenty-four hours earlier it had been just another Norman village, with more than a millennium behind it. By nightfall of June 6,1944, it was a name known around the world-the village where the invasion began and now headquarters for the 82nd Airborne Division.At dawn on June 7 Lieutenant Waverly Wray, executive officer in
Название книги: Citizen Soldiers [Condensed]
Автор(ы): Stephen Ambrose
Жанр: История
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Citizen-Soldiers-_Condensed_-199192.html
There were some unusual junior officers on the front. One was Lieutenant Ed Gesner of the 4th Infantry Division. He knew survival tricks that he taught his platoon, such as how to create a foxhole in frozen ground: he shot eight rounds into the same spot, dug out the loose dirt with his trench knife, placed a half stick of TNT in the hole, lit the fuse, ran, hit the dirt, got up, ran back, and dug with his trench shovel. Within minutes a habitable foxhole.The junior officers coming over from the States were another matter. Pink cheeked youth, they were bewildered by everything around them.
Prologue
FIRST LIGHT came to Ste. Mere-Eglise around 0510. Twenty-four hours earlier it had been just another Norman village, with more than a millennium behind it. By nightfall of June 6,1944, it was a name known around the world-the village where the invasion began and now headquarters for the 82nd Airborne Division.At dawn on June 7 Lieutenant Waverly Wray, executive officer in
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