"Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catc..." - David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

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 Companys in trouble, and we have to help them. Were in reserve, so we have to go. And if were shelled, were 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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War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war

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