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Show An Episoda x Garss (r.suces&st', Kzw Bs;Mam ' "fr i Drawings by MTSgt. V'.c Dc:.?.h..e Story by StfSgl. Art M 'elite During the fight for Hill GC0 r.t C: i Gloucester, New Britain after Marines landed there cn cember 26, 1943 two Leathent?i.;s hitched a ride on a jeey ic?.C.id for the front lines. Two other Jiarir.25, members of one of the units u ahead, held down the front seats. They were hauling supplies to the . front. Ahead was nothing but tangled jungle and swamp, relieved only by the meandering track over which the jeep traveled. Rounding a bend, the jouncing vehicle was stopped by a Marine wearing an MP band. vv'iu -oemed like bullets whizzed psi r... -7 'fie l ses the "cracks" were shar; nnou'n t u: -"..te muzzle bUiri (PrPt?": . " r.l t 'ds vere made i: - ' r- i'' ' .' J r '--fr-s 73."t : - ' liici . ...i -.J . :;-' "The woods is fulla snipers," he wsmed. "Some guys just 'got it' goin' clonr;- the ror.d." Four pairs of anxious eyes scanned the blaste;! and sea-cd wreckage thai tt-s ahead. "Wei!, we gotta get thess sur.i'Urs up," the driver decided Suddenly the driver made up his mind ; the racing jeep pulled up in about five feet. Fori- Marines piled out on the road. A riv-":ch c'leck to see if arms and leers were i '.y-.'r cas'civizry positions and all took ' I " I the vehicle. Auto racers had nothhif on the driver, for he set a pace seemingly calculated to ouisyeed any bullets. More by luck than fcr any oiher reason the Marines managed to siay en (he swaying, bumping vehicle er some 500 yards of mud when . . . Minutes of waiting passed. A noise to the Marines' right caused them to look. Along sauntered a bareheaded, unarmed Marine. He looked at the recumbent figures with a "Wonder what those jerks are doing lying there in the mud?" expression. Several Marines lay behind trees, logs and in ditches facing a space to the left. It looked like a siege; the men were firing into suspicious-looking trees and bushes. All this was apparent as the jeep roared onto the scene. A sheepish crew of red-faced Marines hurriedly hur-riedly got up, remounted the jeep and continued con-tinued on their way without mishap. It may all have been just imagination, but they'll swear snipers had been firing at them or hadn't they? |