Fixed Bayonets! Page #4

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help him with the ammunition.

Bulchek? Is that a name?

All right, come on. Let's go.

- It's nice layout here, Lieutenant?

- Yeah, not bad.

Except for ricochets, sir.

The scientific principles of ricochet

can be tactically utilized by the enemy...

because the bullet

will be torn and jagged...

by its contact with the walls

and the rocks and the roof.

That scratch you got must be

making you run off at the mouth.

- Why don't you have the medic patch it up?

- I took care of it.

I was quite a medical student

in my day.

Now, if they fire anything in here

that will strike off that limestone...

or that calcium carbonate,

the ricochet-

There goes Mr. Belvedere again.

Knows everything.

You ought to be

a general.

- Well, as a matter of fact-

- Save it! Rock.

Yeah, nice layout here.

Yeah. We got a field offire over

the roadblock and the pass.

Yeah. This will give us

an edge on them.

- See that hummock over there?

- Yeah.

- They'll probably try and work a mortar

in behind it. - Yeah, or a buffalo gun.

Yeah, could be.

To get one smack in the cave...

they'd have to plant an A.T.

gun right in that...

Keep it there!

Denno, cover me!

Hey, Vogl!

You guys asleep up there?

You want my squad

to coverboth hills?

We didn't see nobody.

Lonergan, you know

that second squad of yours?

That's your squad.

Well, they're for the birds.

- How many people up there?

- Only one. Only one.

You want to know something else?

That Vogl? Nothing!

Knock it off,

will you, Rock?

Now listen, Vogl!

Keep those monkeys on the ball!

Take a look around!

Anybody stop one up there?

Yeah. One man.

- Bad?

- Dead.

Hey, Lieutenant! I think we ought

to plant a B.A.R. over by that hill!

We got no lieutenant!

Strip him of everything

we can use!

Roll him up in a blanket,

bury him!

And mark him!

There are only three guys

above you- Gibbs, Lonergan and me.

And now there are only two.

Hiya, Harv. Happy in your work, Harv?

What's the matter? This is better than

that "C" Company in the 17th Infantry.

What are you beefing about?

You're getting experience,

aren't you?

Hey, you, you call that cover?

Belly down. More.

Get some more ammo.

How you doin', Irish?

Any more of those Commies

hit this minefield...

they'll make enough noise

to wake up half of Moscow.

- Plant a couple more

of those trip flares over there.

- Yes, sir...

What are you, a wise guy?

Don't "sir" me.

I didn't mean anything by it, Sergeant.

They told me you was acting platoon leader.

I am platoon leader.

That don't mean I have to sweat out a looey

getting killed just to crack an order.

I've seen these looeys come,

and I've seen them go.

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