The Steel Wave

We had a tough fight here, but dammit, we’re getting the job done. The First and the Twenty-ninth took heavy casualties all day yesterday, and they’re still taking them now.

annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged

Dammit, you’ve got a job to do! He tried to pull energy—confidence—from the faces of the others, even from men who had never done this before.

He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, “Dammit!

knows where he is now. Not here, that’s for sure. Hope the Krauts didn’t grab him. Buford…Dammit!

have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there’s nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.

Too far! Dammit, I need a rifle! But his own men were answering, the M-1s close beside him opening up. “I got one! I got one!” Marley’s