Show yank ya i i k writes novel on oil one diary page six days of exciting drama draina told by sergeant BATTLE CREEK MICH one page of a diary belonging to sat I 1 joe orlando contains enough drama to last a lifetime I 1 it covers only six days the days day s he spent helpless in an aban abandoned d one d tank on a german battlefield I 1 joe mind talking about the experience through which he lost both legs and almost his voice it both is S just I 1 u si n now 0 v that he is able to talk again and hes still too amazed at being alive to believe it joes home is at erie pa heres teres his diary first day I 1 was hit crawled into one of our tanks after I 1 was hit mortar shell lands inside where I 1 was lying tore a big hole in water can first aid kit and tore raincoat to bits but touch me second day watched jerry set up position about 50 yards away one comes over sticks bayonet in my shoulder third day two berries outside tank talking one leaves tile the other comes inside where I 1 was sat there then felt my leg thinking I 1 was dead he left fourth day slept all day long but could hear quite a lot of shooting going on all around me fifth day U S troops making an attack eight berries behind tank using it as a shelter one gets hit and puts up quite an argument finally darkness came and they left sixth day nothing much in the morning but in the afternoon hear voices just outside make out the voices and they are americans beg them to take me out so they send an aid man at dark and I 1 am taken out thank god I 1 am safe at last |