Prehistoric WWII by Dane Hatchell

Author:Dane Hatchell [Hatchell, Dane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2016-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

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Jim Stone poured water from a container. He had filled everyone’s cup, with Slick being the final one served.

As they drank in silence, the shout of a Colt .45 honored the life of the latest fallen sailor of the USS Sutton.

Chapter 14

Jakob Norz had been reassigned by Commander Christoph Neuzetser from electro machinist to leading four other crewmen on the recon mission mapping the north. He wasn’t sure why he was chosen to the lead the group. Perhaps it was his age, as he was among the oldest of the crew. Of the crewmen he led, they were all at least twenty years his junior. Norz had the reputation of being a perfectionist and demanded the same from others.

The five were on their way back to camp after spending the first night near a wall of limestone. He estimated they had traveled over twenty-four kilometers before bunking down. During the journey, they had seen creatures out of time that staggered the imagination.

The first they came upon was near fifty meters long when it walked on all fours. Which at first sight seemed impossible because the front legs were shorter than the rear, resembling arms more than legs. But that didn’t stop this duckbilled beast from getting around. It had a crest on its head that went down the neck all the way across its back, where it became noticeably taller. Norz thought its body shape resembled a teardrop turned on its side, the point being the tail. The massive creature must have weighed several tonnes. Standing on four legs had its head taller than an average man. When it stood on its back legs to eat leaves, Norz guessed it towered another three meters!

From the looks of things, this animal was a herbivore. Which gave Norz some relief, as he questioned how effective bullets from his Sturmgewehr would fare against it.

Along the way, they saw a few more creatures like it and some similar but distinctly different. There was one four-legged creature that reminded him of an armored vehicle. The beast was five meters long and two meters tall. Its back had raised plates that might have been strong enough to stop bullets. At the end of its tail, a mace-like ball attached to the end, a defensive weapon for certain. A similar animal, a stegosaurus, grazed listlessly as they made their way past. Stegosaurus was one of the few dinosaur names Norz knew, and right now, he wished he knew them all. Pterosaurs, as well as the small two-legged dinosaurs, were so common that they no longer looked at them with fascination.

The most impressive sight of all was the brontosaurus. Thankfully, another herbivore, the animal was over twenty-two meters long. Its legs looked like columns of concrete large enough to support a bridge. When it raised its head to eat leaves from a tree, it topped out near nine meters. The creature appeared to be slow, but so far Norz hadn’t seen any potential predators. Even if T. rexes

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