War is Hell!

[John Sabato]

I recently acquired approximately 300 pages of the operational reports for my father's unit (9th Infantry Division) during WW2. It has been some really fascinating history.

For those of us who have never experienced intense combat conditions, I offer this very small extract from one of these reports: This is the reported ammunition expenditure for the 9th Infantry Division for the period of 26th of March to the 8th of April 1943 during the campaign for the capture of Tunisia.



This was very intense combat with very little movement of troops. Mostly skirmishes with German forces.

Here are the casualty figures for the same period:



Somehow the expression War is Hell, doesn't seem to be adequate enough to cover what my Dad and his friends endured...