Battleground Page #7

Get your blanket.

Fall out. Draw rifles and ammo right now!

- Chow?

- You ain't even warm.

Follow me, all of you, on the double!

That's all, brother.

Hey, you! Front and center!

Good thing they didn't send me up.

I never even fired an M-1 rifle.

Last time I was out on the range,

they were still using the.03.

All litter cases will prepare

to be evacuated immediately...

to air raid shelters.

All walking wounded

will fall out and draw rifles.

This is a.30-caliber, gas-operated,

clip-fed, semiautomatic rifle.

Look, you ain't selling it to me.

You're only showing me how it works.

To load it, you just pull the bolt back

like this, and stick the clip in.

- What's up, Smitty?

- Battalion says to pull back.

- Go ahead.

- You, too, sir. They said to tell you.

It's a cinch we ain't pulling back that way.

I guess maybe we ain't pulling back at all.

Lieutenant, take the second squad.

First squad! Third squad! Over here.

Save it, Layton.

They'll be getting a lot closer,

and we'll still be here.

It's shining!

How have you been?

Jarvess, look at them! They got here!

Drive them out of there! Blast them!

C-47s!

What was that about eagles?

"They shall mount up

with wings as eagles.

"They shall run and not be weary."

- Well, what are we waiting for?

- Let's go!

- Save me a couple of drops for my lighter.

- Lighter?

I got a little old lamp I got to fill

back in Bastogne.

K rations.

All dinners.

Hey, fellows, here it is.

Hey, fellows, come and get it.

Here, take your watch.

Daddy, what are them things?

It's a new kind of warfare, son.

Mechanized, I think they call it.

Read about it in the Stars and Stripes.

What will they think of next?

Tank job, cigarette for papa?

Got a Stars and Stripes?

It's two days old.

Heard it's been pretty rugged up here.

That's for sure. That's for dang sure.

Hey, handsome.

Good luck!

The folks back home

knew we'd get out of this.

They heard relief was breaking through

two days ago.

Fine. I'd hate to think

they'd been worrying.

You'll be happy to know we're in Belgium,

not Luxembourg.

Just so we're going back.

That's all that counts.

You mean you're not happy in the service?

I didn't say that. I love it.

You found a home in the Army, chum.

Me, too. Never had it so good in my life.

Third platoon, on your feet.

Fall in.

Oh, no!

About face.

Forward march.

Whatever happened to Jody?

All right. Come on.

What do you want these guys to think,

you're a bunch of WACs?

All right. Pick it up. Hut, two, three.

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