A few American rifles answered, their fire...
A few American rifles answered, their fire sounding more powerful, like a leather belt slapped on a tableWyman shifted uneasily"How far away do you figure the Japs are?" he asked CroftYou'll see 'em soon enough, boy
"Hell he will," Red said"We're going to be sitting around all night"You wouldn't mind that, would you, Valsen?"
"Not meI'm no hero," Red said
Some soldiers walked past in the darkness, and a few trucks pulled into the bivouacWyman lay down on the groundHe was a little chagrined that he would spend his first night in combat trying to fall asleepThe water soaked through his shirt, which was already wet, and he sat up again, shiveringThe air was very sultryHe wished he could light a cigarette
They waited another half hour before receiving the order to moveCroft stood up and followed their guide while replica tiffany jewelry the rest trailed behindThe guide led them into a patch of brush where a platoon of men was grouped around six antitank gunsThey were 37s, small guns about six feet long with very slender barrelsOne man could pull one gun without too much difficulty over level hard ground
"We're going along with antitank up to First Battalion," Croft said"We got to pull two of them guns
Croft told them to gather around him"I don't know how muddy the damn trail is going to be," he began, "but it ain't too hard to guessWe're going to be in the middle of the column, so I'm going to cut us into three groups of three men each, and they'll be one group restin' all the timeI'll take Wilson and Gallagher, and Martinez can take Valsen and Ridges, and Toglio, you got what's left -- Goldstein and WymanWe're scrapin' the barrel," he added dryly
He cheap chanel watches went up to talk to an officer for a few secondsWhen he came back, he said, "We'll let Toglio's group have the first rest He got behind one of the guns and gave it a tug"The sonofabitch is going to be heavy Wilson and Gallagher started pulling it with him, and the other platoon, which had already divided into a few men on each gun, began to move outThey tugged the guns across the bivouac area, and passed through a gap in the barbed wire where there was a machine gun emplacement"Have a good time, men," the man at the machine gun said
"Blow it out," Gallagher answeredThe gun was beginning to drag on his arms already
There were about fifty men in the column, and they moved very slowly down a narrow trail through the jungleAfter they had moved a hundred feet, they were no longer able to see the men in front of themThe replica cartier tank watches branches of the trees on either side of the trail joined overhead, and they felt as though they were groping through an endless tunnelTheir feet sank into the deep mud and, after a few yards, their boots were covered with great slabs of muckThe men on the guns would lunge forward for a few feet and then halt, lunge forward and haltEvery ten yards a gun would bog down and the three men assigned to it would have to tug until their strength seeped from their fingersThey would wrestle the gun out of its rut and plunge it forward for fifteen feet before their momentum was lostThen they would pull it and lift it for another few yards until it sank into a hole once moreThe entire column labored and stumbled at a miserable pace along the trailIn the darkness they kept ganging up on each other, the men on one gun sometimes riding rolex uk it up onto the muzzle of the one ahead, or falling behind so far that the file at last broke into separate wriggling columns like a worm cut into many parts and still livingThe men at the rear had the worst of itThe guns and men that preceded them had churned the trail until it was almost a marsh, and there were places where two teams would have to combine on one gun and carry it above the ground until they had passed the worst of the slime
The trail was only a few feet wideHuge roots continually tripped the men, and their faces and hands became scratched and bleeding from the branches and thornsIn the complete darkness they had no idea of how the trail might bend, and sometimes on a down slope, when they could let the gun roll a little distance, they would land at the bottom with the field piece completely off the chanel replica handbags trail