The Devils Brigade

The Devils Brigade

Constant gunfire from a MG 42 is all he heard and he was stuck in a trench with a bunker full of Nazis on the other side of the hill he just used all his ammo for his M1 Garand to get here but he had to capture this bunker, his squad was taking heavy fire from this bunker too he had no choice to go back either because that would mean death so this was his only choice, he jumped up to get a running start into the bunker.            (September 1942)  He woke up to the fresh smell of Montana air and it smelled wonderful "Hey Dick we got to get to the mess hall sarge wants us"    "Okay Tom I'll be there in a second"    "well hurry up it's important"   "yea yea okay" as he got out of his bunk and put on his uniform and looked at his rank and was happy to be promoted to corporal and as he was prepared to leave he looked back and saw his reflection in the mirror as he remembered how he looked when he first joined he was not as muscular or as hardy but all this training has toned him into a capable soldier. As he left the barracks he opened the door and he covered his eyes because it was a very sunny day it was more sunny that usual but he liked the sun hitting his skin when he got to the mess hall he noticed all the greenhorns crowding around it as he pushed through the crowd he saw sarge sitting in a chair with a grin on his face and he told the drill sergeant to disperse the crowd "Alright greenhorns lets go for a four mile jog" The marines looked annoyed by this but they did not dare to talk back to the the drill sergeant,when they were gone the sarge looked at me and said  " looks like we are going to Germany corporal". (November 1943) "Hey sarge why don't we just rush in and get them" said Wolfe   "well private we can't because if we do we might alarm the whole place and it would be over quicker than it started" said the sergeant "well sir we can lure those guys by the tower over there and end them there behind the truck and sneak past the other ones there"  "Hm that's a good idea Thomas but what about that sniper right up on the tree on the other side"  " you can send me to go kill him"   "not a good idea tom but I already sent Dick up there since he is already halfway there" Tom looks around "wasn't Dick here a moment ago"  "yes but I sent him up there to take care of that sniper", Dick was at the sniper perch in the tree   " he grabbed his tomahawk and threw it at the sniper but if the tomahawk did not kill him the fall would, the hawk hit him in the rib and he doubled over and fell as he heard the sniper hit the ground he heard a sharp crack he walked up to the dead sniper and grabbed his tomahawk. As he was about to leave the area he heard gunfire and he looked down he saw his squad pinned down in a trench and he saw a bunker up on the hill he started running to the bunker but then a platoon of German infantry came from the south and he had no choice but to start firing his garand at the small platoon he took down five of them before they knew what hit them but the rest saw him and started firing their STG 44s he was already on his last clip he took aim at a nearby gas tank and shot it and it exploded shrapnel flew everywhere and killed a few soldiers so he just took cover in a nearby trench he was stuck in a trench with a bunker full of Nazis on the other side of the hill he just used all his ammo for his M1 Garand to get here but he had to capture this bunker, he had no choice but to run in there and capture it so he jumped up and ran in there. sarge was still pinned down in the trench Wolfe was dead and the heavy gunner was wounded " TOM GET YOUR HEAD DOWN NOW!!!!!!" as tom got down his helmet flew off "WHOA!!!!!! That was a close call" he looked at his helmet and saw a hole in it  "what now sarge" asked the medic " stay down and hold out as long as we can" as the gunfire ceased sarge looked over the trench and saw the bunker stopped firing and he saw Dick coming out of the bunker with captured german gunners 20 of them.

By Jesse Casimer