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The order came in a muffled voice carried far in the hills. The shots cracked out, in bursts, and the echoes amplified them till they sounded like a hundred machine guns all firing together ... When daybreak came only the distant sounds of the battle reached the hills.
Edwin Rolfe, The Lincoln Battalion, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, New York, 1939, p. 4.
TIME: mid 1930's
PLACE: Spain
CIRCUMSTANCE: Spanish Civil War
An airplane machine-gun bullet is about three times the size of a rifle or infantry machine gun cartridge. When you are in the fields, it sinks into the earth with a little hissing sound, but in town, or on the outskirts of a town, wherever there are roofs or pavement or stone of any kind, the sound is sharp and staccato, like hail.
Edwin Rolfe, The Lincoln Battalion, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, New York, 1939, p. 32.
TIME: mid 1930's
PLACE: Spain
CIRCUMSTANCE: Spanish Civil War
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