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ON M W YEAR'S Eve (we knew then what day it was because the artillery radios picked up BBC) Capt. Frank Bell told us about the party.He pointed out the church spire at Butgenbach. Our intelligence says the Krauts are going to have a party there at midnight, he told us. He said the artillery had a New Year’s surprise planned for them. He said for us to watch.At the stroke of midnight thesurprise was delivered. Twenty-eight battalions of artillery— that’s about 350 guns of all sizes—fired what Capt. Ball called a T-O-T. All guns were aimed at the church.The captain explained that T-O-T meant Time on Target— all guns set their timer fuses and fired at such an angle that all the shells hit at exactly the same instant.It w?as awful to hear the hundreds and hundreds of
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Fri, Dec 26, 1958
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