Pvt. Don Hoobler was with the 3d squad, 1st platoon, hiding in a gateway. He decided to have some fun with Pvt. Farris Rice, so he whistled a perfect imitation of an incoming shell. Rice fell flat on his face. That put Hoobler in stitches: “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Boy, sure sucked you in on that one!”
”Goddamn you, Hoobler, that’s bad on a guy.”
BzzYoo… BAM! A real shell came in. Hoobler stopped laughing.
Source:
Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Hell’s Highway.” Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 132. Print.
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