Bob #17

But as good as Easy Company of the 506th was, and there was no better light infantry company in the Army, there was nothing it could do about that terror of the battlefield, modern artillery. Easy had to cross the dike to get home. It could not stay in the open field and get pounded. But in crossing the dike, the company, the company exposed itself to zeroed-in German artillery. A few minutes of total terror, and the company had taken more casualties than it had in its encounters with German rifle-men by the hundreds earlier in the day.

"Artillery is a terrible thing," Webster said. "... I hate it."

- Chapter 9: "The Island", "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose.