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Carroll Steinbeck letters to parents, January - April, 1945

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 4

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between gun report and the explosion. Once in awhile you had time to wonder where the next would hit. This all took place so fast that we really didn't have a chance to get scared. We did some firing to. Another time along this same line, the Germans started shelling us in the day time while I was out by the gun. I ran right through a hedge row trying to get cover behind a haystack. Don't know how I ever made it through that hedge. One night I was standing guard and I darned near shot my Sgt. It was raining out and was pitch dark. I was standing guard out by a stone wall at a time. I had a sub machine gun and I made up my mind if any body came around the corner of that wall he was a goner for none of us were supposed to be there. My Sgt. was supposed to check the guard at a certain time and come a certain path. He was wrong on both counts and darned if he didn't come out from behind that wall. I saw him and jerked the safty off and was squeezing the trigger when he called out my name. A split second later and he would have been cut in to.

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4 between gun report and the explosion. Once in awhile you had time to wonder where the next would hit. This all took place so fast that we really didn't have a chance to get scared. We did some firing to. Another time along this same line, the Germans started shelling us in the day time while I was out by the gun. I ran right through a hedge row trying to get cover behind a haystack. Don't know how I ever made it through that hedge. One night I was standing guard and I darned near shot my Sgt. It was raining out and was pitch dark. I was standing guard out by a stone wall at a time. I had a sub machine gun and I made up my mind if any body came around the corner of that wall he was a goner for none of us were supposed to be there. My Sgt. was supposed to check the guard at a certain time and come a certain path. He was wrong on both counts and darned if he didn't come out from behind that wall. I saw him and jerked the safty off and was squeezing the trigger when he called out my name. A split second later and he would have been cut in to.