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Morning Air attack on TF, near Tarawa at 136,128<br/>
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<r> When I showed up on the Russian front, the soldiers of Company 2 were anxious to tell me of their success the day before. The Soviet soldiers had driven the Germans out of Khisova, then pulled back before the Germans at Navinskaya, across the valley, could decimate them with machine gun and ...

<r> When I showed up at the lab that evening, I had my first pangs of, “I wish I had never gotten involved in any of this.” Every way I turned it in my mind, I could not see Professor Jenkins’ plan to kill Lieutenant Kajukalo as anything but murder. The more I thought about the situation, the more ...

<t> When I returned to the History Department the next morning, I found a message waiting for me in my mailbox. Dean Kavlin wanted to see me in his office the moment I came in. His secretary saw me from her desk up the hallway, so there was no sneaking out the door and putting this off. She simply ...

<t> I popped into the history lab, then quickly moved off of the platform, leaving room for Messer to appear. I was so chilled that I swore that the trans-verser had brought a bubble of cold air from the Eastern Front with me. Moisture from the inside air quickly condensed on the barrel of my rifle ...

<r> “You should get back here,” Private Messerer said to me through my earpiece.<br/>
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Messerer whispered, “The Captain is thinking that the fighting is over. It’s time to get rid of Lieutenant Kajukalo.”<br/>
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<r> Captain Reizin put down his binoculars and gave me a slap on the back that knocked the breath out of me. We had both been watching the remnants of a German platoon scampering towards the tree line north of the town of Khisova. Reizin’s 2nd Company were the ones to drive the Germans away and ...

<r> For all practical purposes we had the remnants of two platoons pinned in the buildings below us. We, 2nd Company, commanded the heights on the southern side of town, while 1st Company held the heights on the east side of town. The Germans held what was left of the village below us.<br/>
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<r> The Germans holding the town of Khisova had been driven into what could perhaps be described as the business district in this village. First company occupied the buildings on the slops overlooking the Germans to their east, while 2nd Company overlooked the Germans from the buildings on the ...

<r> “Major Teodorovich wants you to go around and hook up on the left side of Lieutenant Repnikov’s 2nd Platoon from 1st Company,” I told Captain Reizen. I ignored the fact that, in the valley below me, it looked as if 1st Company’s 2nd Platoon was falling apart, and 1st Company’s 1st Platoon was ...

<r> Soon after the shooting started, I also heard the distant rumble of artillery. The snow-covered ground seemed to amplify all sounds so that, even though the explosions had to travel over a hill and through a line of trees, it sounded surprisingly close. As soon as Major Teodorovich could see the ...

<r> I took my orders, fastened on my skis, and stepped back out into the cold in the company of Corporal Bode. The trip to Velikoe Selo, where we were supposed to meet 2nd Company, was upwind. Bode carried Major Teodorovich’s orders for Captain Reizin, the commander of 2nd Company, to head north and ...

<r> “It looks like we’re clear to go,” said Professor Jenkins. The recording from the probe sent to our arrival point did not show any signs of people. He maneuvered, in his skis, across the concrete floor into the middle of the trans-verser and gave a signal. The machinery fired up, and Jenkins ...

<r> I went straight to the trans-verse center after my last class, but I did not go eagerly. I was not looking forward to the evening’s task.<br/>
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I entered the chamber to find it full. A team of five researchers was coming back from their first training mission. They went to a verse in the ...

<t> "Update the coordinates, we're going back," Professor Jenkins said to Synthia.<br/>
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Synthia looked up from her computer console and stared at him a moment while the instructions sank in. "Back where?"<br/>
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"To the multiverse we just left. I want to go back - the same world, the ...

<r> The Germans were not routed from the village. They performed an orderly retreat, with a rear guard stopping long enough to fire on their pursuers while others set up defenses further back. There was an orchard, with a stone wall, on the right side of the road. The Germans retreated into that ...

<r> “After the assault, we’ll kill Lieutenant Kajukalo,” Captain Jenin said to me in a whisper. “But we have to wait until after the charge. I’ve been watching him. He’s a good leader. He has the confidence of his men. If we kill him now, his platoon might just fall apart, and we don’t need that ...

<r> Getting to Captain Jenin, who had accompanied the Third Platoon under Lieutenant Kajukalo, required crossing main street. However, Major Teodorovich had ordered that this gap in his line of communication be closed. He ordered his troops to take cars and wagons and move them out onto the road to ...

<r> I was the first to enter the building at the edge of town where the German machine gunners had been set up. I found the machine gun laying on the floor, and three German soldiers on the ground. One had been shot in the face, his jaw shattered by a bullet and hanging loose from his face. He moved ...

<r> The Soviet soldiers who did not run started to return fire into the town. I heard Teodorovich as he moved down the line, shouting, “They can’t kill you if you kill them first!” A gunner could go through a plate of ammunition in less than a minute, and often did so when he was panicked. Each ...