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Anyone who
has never heard a barrage of field pieces has missed one of the most
thrilling experiences in life. It isn't just the sound, but the
spirit of all that crashing bosom of death sweeping ahead of you
that makes the spinal nerves tingle, and rouses the battle-senses to
their keenest pitch. For five or perhaps ten minutes our shrapnel
flailed and threshed the underbrush where Jap snipers might be
lurking and powdered the rugged hillsides with pepper-pots of steel.
The silence followed, and B, standing near his lead squad,
motioned with an easy gesture: "Move out!"'
Capt. Charles
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