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show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways There was a stream of wounded soldiers coming out of the woods.

One man I noticed was holding on to his stomach in an effort to hold in a large wound that was allowing his intestines to spill out.

Quickly, a front-run medic came up and helped the man lie down and put on a large bandage

around his stomach and then injected him with morphine.

An old sergeant told me to lie low behind large rocks and then moved towards the

last German artillery shell blast. He said that was the safest thing to do since the

German gunners always turned the crank on their gun a few notches to hit another position. I did run and gun the

a few notches to hit another position.

I did run into the last shell burst

and the next landed 30 yards away.

This was life-saving advice.

Private Arthur S. Couch First Infantry Division.

Well, welcome everyone to this special two-part edition of We Have Ways of Making

You Talk USA with myself Al Murray, James Holland, and as you just heard there, John McManus.

And we are talking in these episodes about the epic 88 day battle, the struggle, the

slag I'm Hurtenwald, the Battle of the Hurtenwald, which I think is an episode that

when you look at the sort of period after

overlord is one of those battles that sort of kind of gets a bit of hand waving

oh God that's awful. There's this awful battle in the Herkin Forest.

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