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Ninth installment

The remains of the unit that were in this position left and we followed them, we went around the outskirts of the village and back into the center. The rest of PIV or what was left of it were already there, we found out that Colin just after he had reached the main hq in the center of the village. We had to go back to the end of the street to see what was happening but as soon as we arrived we came under heavy fire as the enemy had pinpointed this house as our new front line, there was no way that we could reach Eric without getting everyone who attempted a rescue killed and because of the amount of enemy fire we had to fall back, on the way Alan started going berserk saying that he had to go back to fight, he was shooting everywhere so George calmed him down and asked him to take care of the elderly and that seemed to work. By now the village command had decided it was time to leave but first we had to wait for the mortar unit to reach safety. We could not get anywhere near under cons...
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Tenth installment

The next day I awoke to a bright and sunny day, there was nothing bright about the way that I feeling at that precise time, I went for breakfast and then returned to the house as I was not interested in talking to anybody. Later on that morning Peter and zaggy returned, I was sitting down when they arrived and immediately told them what had happened, they were obviously sorry but didn't feel the same way as I did, I had known Alan longer and therefore felt more sorrow. They asked me where Alan's things were and after telling them Peter went to check them, I went with him and while we were checking through it he decided to keep anything that was of use to us and the rest give to the unit. Everything that had been in Alan's wallet I had left there for it to be sent to his parents in Portugal but Peter decided that Alan would have said to have a drink on him and therefore took what little money was there. The only way that we could contact anybody was by mobile phone which was...
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Third installment

Day in, day out, it was the same routine, sleep, guard, fire off a few rounds in the general direction of the enemy, there was not much else to do, the main thing was to stay alive by keeping inside every time mortars or artillery came flying in to the village. The only time that there was a lot of activitie was when we were buzzed by planes, everybody would rush outside, Ernie would jump on the transporter and fire the machine gun, I used to run to the machine gun that was mounted on a tripod at the end of the street and also fire at the plane, everybody else would be outside firing their ak47s, there was not much chance of hitting it or bringing it down but it took only one lucky shot and that would give everyone hope. After the plane had gone out of sight that the transporter was Ernies because he had shot at the enemy leaving the damaged transporter with a sniper rifle, so Geordi the commander in charge of the defense of Osijek had given it to Ernie, I also found out that he worked...
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