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Show lanfc Writes Novel On One Diary Page Six Days of ExcitingDrama Told by Sergeant. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. One page ol diary belonging to Sgt. Joe Orlando contains enough drama to last a lifetime. It covers only six days the days he spent helpless in an abandoned tank on a German battlefield. Joe doesn't mind talking about the experience through which he lost both legs and almost his voice. It is just now that he is able to talk again and he's still too amazed at being alive to believe it. Joe's home is at Erie, Pa. Here's his diary: First day I was hit. Crawled into one of our tanks after I was hit. Mortar shell lands inside where I was lying. Tore a big hole in water can, first aid kit and tore raincoat to bits but didn't touch me. Second day Watched Jerry set up position about 50 yards away. One comes over, sticks bayonet in my shoulder. Third day Two Jerries outside tank talking. One leaves, the other comes inside where I was. Sat there, then felt my leg. Thinking I was dead he left. Fourth day Slept all day long, but could hear quite a lot of shooting shoot-ing going on all around me. Fifth day U. S. troops making an attack. Eight Jerries behind tank using it as a shelter. One gets hit and puts up quite an argument. Finally Fi-nally 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 am taken out. Thank God I am safe at last. |
