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At the shriek of Lt Fiske's whistle sounding the charge, Davies clambers up and over the parapet with the rest of his platoon. He's next to Gorin and Powell and, inexplicably, right behind Captain Bradford.
They crawl through their own barbed wire, which has been cut in places to allow the attacking battalions through, and then head across No Man's Land, marching in fairly straight lines while the Germans fire back at them. No Man's Land is a mess of craters and shell holes and torn-up fields, uneven and muddy, and while the German counterattack feels heavy to Davies, he can't think about it. He's with his platoon, behind his company commander, and nothing will stop their advance.
( There's strong machine gun fire off to the right )
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total words: 17,618
note: icon! that's davies. (actually tom hardy in colditz, which i think is set during ww2 but whatever. my other option was a screencap from band of brothers.) also the thing i know i left out of this bit is that the fields, the trenches, and no man's land would've been if not covered at least scattered with dead and wounded men. the british army lost 20% of its entire fighting force the first day of the battle of the somme. that's a lot of bodies. also also, trying to plot this thing on a map is A PAIN IN THE ASS.
They crawl through their own barbed wire, which has been cut in places to allow the attacking battalions through, and then head across No Man's Land, marching in fairly straight lines while the Germans fire back at them. No Man's Land is a mess of craters and shell holes and torn-up fields, uneven and muddy, and while the German counterattack feels heavy to Davies, he can't think about it. He's with his platoon, behind his company commander, and nothing will stop their advance.
( There's strong machine gun fire off to the right )
words: 3475
total words: 17,618
note: icon! that's davies. (actually tom hardy in colditz, which i think is set during ww2 but whatever. my other option was a screencap from band of brothers.) also the thing i know i left out of this bit is that the fields, the trenches, and no man's land would've been if not covered at least scattered with dead and wounded men. the british army lost 20% of its entire fighting force the first day of the battle of the somme. that's a lot of bodies. also also, trying to plot this thing on a map is A PAIN IN THE ASS.
