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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company__ in trouble, and we have to help them. We__e in reserve, so we have to go. And if we__e shelled, we__e shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
David Kenyon Webster Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company__ in trouble, and we have to help them. We__e in reserve, so we have to go. And if we__e shelled, we__e shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
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