Bob Conroy: The Sound of Bullets | Gordon

Transcript: We went through Belgium. Other than the fellow that lost the battle to the tank, the unit stayed pretty well together psychologically. We finished there and went into another battle. It was a three-day battle. Non-stop. Limited food. A fantastic battle. It was in the woods in defensive indian style. We were right behind a small hill. You could hear it going on. You could hear the German machine guns. They had a "bbrrppp" sound. And there were four of them right about 100 yards in front of us. And you could hear ours. We had some lights in-action and we had some heavies in-action in the woods. And the heavies go "bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum" and you have two pairs of them. And they have a rhythm to them, sort of like a symphony. And as we were listening we could hear one of the guns get knocked out. You hear the one on the right just took up a double beat until the replacement crew could come in and pick it up again. The bullets are whizzing through the trees over your head and, in that particular situation, I was along side of the captain and he was begging to get into it. I didn't share his enthusiasm, but we went on through that battle. Lasted three days. We didn't have much anything in the way of food and we didn't have anything in the way of sleep.