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Wooden Bullets, Nazi Medic Among Rangers' DiscoveriesBy HAL BOYLETwenty-first Army Group Headquarters, June 9—(Delayed) —(/Pi —A group of American rangers, fighting in Normandy, reported that in a captured German ammunition dump they picked up boxes of hundreds of large explos-* ive wooden bullets. They were 50 caliber, or larger.' But it wasn’t wooden bullets they were firing at us, said the rangers. They were metal all right and sounded as if they were as big as manhole covers. t The rangers complained also that two women snipers fired at . them, but said that otherwise feminine reception was extremely » friendly.• It was early morning the day after invasion when four indistinct figures came out of the French woods 200 yards away, related Sgt. Frederick Dix. Syracuse. N. Y.. who was in a ditch with three other rangers. We thought they were from one of our companies because they were carrying an American bazooka gun.We didn’t challenge them because it would have given away our spot, which wasn't much protection as it was. There was a new kid I'd never seen before who was helping me on the machine gun, and there also were Sgt. Wil-liartl Petty. Cohutta. Ga., and Carl Winsch, Philadelphia.Just as the men got to the edge of the ditch a few yards away, Dix looked up again.n-lr _ II.. J
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Racine Journal Times Sunday Bulletin
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Jun 25, 1944
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