American Valor Quarterly Issue 6 - Spring/Summer 2009 | Page 20

cleaning up the trenches just a few seconds earlier had come from
this same location.
The half-track was smaller than ours, and as I recall did not have
a deep bed. It seems to me that it did not have a partition behind
the driver, but I can’t remember that well. I can’t remember if
the tailgate lowered, but it seemed the sides that formed the bed
were the same height. I had only enough time to get my rifle to
my shoulder. The whole scene lasted for only a few seconds, and
I did not get a shot off. It did not get the attention of the men
that had taken the entrenchments. I have since established that the
men taking that bluff top were 29th Division men.
I started to follow the squad, but they were ou و