Ambush Luck

I’ll tell you how lucky, how lucky people can be. Our whole battalion was marching down a road about five yard intervals of course, you know, you can imagine how long a row of people that would be and all of a sudden the side of the road was a bank and here it was, “putt, putt, putt.” A machine gun had opened up and it swept down the whole row of our company, “D” Company. Everybody hit the ditch and it took about 20 minutes or so, they sent the last corporal and a Bren gunner from the last section out to... A fellow and a machine gun in a barn loft had raked the whole battalion, or our company. One person got one little crease behind the leg of all those bullets, you know, and it was about 20 minutes or so before we could get up and move again, but that’s how lucky, what luck is. He could’ve just as easy as hit 50 knees out of that, you know. So that’s luck.