Fatal Decision by Carlo D'Este

Author:Carlo D'Este
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1991-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

Such was the lack of reserves within the Division at this time that the relief of this pitiful little band of Foresters was not at once possible…these hundred men were obliged for five days to hold their positions, while the enemy, who by day directed an almost ceaseless fire from his artillery and mortars into the Boot and the wadi to the North of it, by night sent his patrols—mostly parachutists from 4 Parachute Divison—to lob grenades from the edge of the gully down into the Foresters’ slit trenches, before they could be driven off by automatic weapons covering a hopelessly inadequate field of fire.14

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