There were moments of grotesque humor. Monroe Ozment of Virginia and his buddies were struggling up and over the third terrace, getting picked off by machine-gun and mortar fire, when someone yelled: “Turner got hit!”
”Turner was a heavyset guy,” Ozment remembered, “and we always kidded him that if he got hit he’d get it in the butt. ‘Where’d he get hit?’ I shouted, and someone yelled back, ‘In the butt!’ “
Source:
Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. “D-Day.” Flags of Our Fathers. Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006. 158. Print.
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