War: We Didn't Ask Why

Corporal Robert Davis, a big, serious-faced Negro BAR man from the 24th Infantry Regiment, and his buddy, Jimmy Wright, spent most of last week in a foxhole on a hilltop near Masan. They didn't remember all of what had happened to them, but they did remember some things. Davis told TIME Correspondent Jim Bell about them.

"My buddy and I seen this snake wrigglin' into the hole; it was a little green snake, and they'd tole us it was real poisonous. We couldn't get out of the hole. They woulda got us for sure. So Jimmy he reaches over real careful and...

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