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In the first few days we learned a little of the set-up; HQ was to be the gun operations room, the GOR, from which the AA guns surrounding Bristol would be directed. Some of us would be GOR personnel, others would form the Line Section maintaining communications with the gun sites, while a few would be responsible for the Quartermaster's stores and general clerical work.
He was rather pleased to find that the HQ general was already quite dead, his neck broken as cleanly as if it had been done by a hangman. Hardly an hour before, MacMaine would cheerfully have shot Hokotan where it would hurt the most and watch him die slowly. But the memory of Hokotan's honest apology made the Earthman very glad that he did not have to shoot the general at all.
Len took his orders literally, left his milk float where it was in the road, went home, changed into his uniform and reported to HQ. Then he phoned his employer and told him where he could find the milk float leaving it up to the employer to mollify all the irate customers. In December 1939 I returned from Filton to Worral Road and for three months became a member of a GOR shift.
SGT. FRANK GETZLOFF, "M" Co. CORP. C. A. GROBBELL, "I" Co. LIEUT. GEORGE W. STONER, "M" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. JOHN H. ROMPINEN, "M" Co. PVT. ALFRED FULLER, "K" Co. MAJOR MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE, 339th Inf. LIEUT. CLARENCE J. PRIMM, "M" Co., 339th Inf. LIEUT. DWIGHT FISTLER, "I" Co., 339th Inf. SGT. CHARLES HEBNER, "M" Co. PVT. OTTO GEORGIA, "K" Co. LIEUT. PERCIVAL L. SMITH, "Hq." Co., 339th Inf.
They took a long time getting tough about espionage in this country, but when Americans get tough about something, they get tough right. But look here; we handed in our progress-reports to Felix Weissberg, and he passed them on to Nayland. Couldn't the leak be right in Nayland's own HQ?" "That's what I thought, at first," MacLeod replied. "Just wishful thinking, though.
In that city of Archangel with nowhere to retreat, nervous times were bound to come. "The wind up their back," that is, cold shivers, made kind-hearted, level-headed men do harsh things. Comrade Danny Anderson of "Hq" Company could tell a blood-curdling story of the execution he witnessed.
For two hours, MacLeod remained with them. He heard Suzanne Maillard and some woman who was talking from a number in the Army married-officers' settlement making arrangements about a party. He heard Rudolf von Heldenfeld make a date with some girl. He listened to a violent altercation between the Team chef and somebody at Army Quartermaster's HQ about the quality of a lot of dressed chicken.
He learned to use the Lewis gun and the Vickers machine gun of the British and Russian armies, also the one-pounder, or pom pom. He became proficient in the use of the French Chauchat automatic rifle and the French machine gun, and their rifle grenade guns. He learned to use the Stokes mortars with deadly effect on many a hard-fought line. And during the winter two platoons of "Hq."
"Hq" Co., 339th Inf., American E. F., Archangel, Russia."
Captain Donoghue had become "Major Mike" for all time and Lt. Jahns commanded the old company. Donoghue had taken back to the Kodish Force valuable reinforcements in the shape of Smith's and Tessin's trench mortar sections of "Hq" Company.
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