Hold your position men

We’d gone ahead with reconnaissance up ahead, came out of this valley up on the plateau and they told us to halt there. That’s far enough advance on that sector because they didn’t want one sector way ahead of the other. Just hold that until we send the infantry up. So we just played around there all afternoon in the sunshine. There were a few haystacks but nobody had the, to go and look in the haystack. There’s damn tanks buried in there, big tankers. And the infantry came up and they trucked them up there and they were unloading them and these Goddamn haystacks started firing. That was pretty rough going. Well, I soon got them covered because they had the assault troops and that there and they ran out there to give them machine gun fire to protect them when they were on a, up a ditch and PIATs. We got three tanks there in twenty minutes, three big tanks, took them out with those PIATs, but the assault troops did that. We couldn’t do it with the armored cars. They’d just bounce off, but that PIAT, it would go through.* PIAT = Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, a British anti-tank weapon.