| Soon the Japanese found time to take them under fire too, and bullets whistled across the top of the amphtrac. |
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| On the most advanced models, troops used a stern ramp to exit the amphtrac, giving them extra moments before exposure to enemy small arms fire. |
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| The inside of this amphtrac was even bloodier than the one they had entered the day before.
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| There were fifteen Marines in the amphtrac, most dead and a few still alive but badly wounded. |
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| The amphtrac floated on pontoons and rolled on cleated tank treads, enabling the craft not only to propel itself in water but also to climb across exposed reefs. |
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| He opened with his machine gun, temporarily silenced the pillbox, and he and his crew had just about got the gun out of the amphtrac when the pillbox opened again. |
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| I sat there indefinitely, watching the amphtrac, not hearing the explosions and bullets and screaming men around me, not knowing what to do. |
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