Parachute Infantry

Martin went up to a British tank which had pulled back with us. „Put a shell in that church steeple,“ he suggested. „The Krauts are using it as an observation post.“

The tank commander shook his head. „I’m sorry, we can’t do it,“ he replied crisply. „We have orders not to destroy too much property. Friendly country, you know.“

And so we mounted the tanks and pulled out without leveling Nunen, as a good American armored unit would have done, for that is how wars are won—not by fighting 50 percent or 30 percent or even 85 percent, but by fighting 100 percent with every weapon at your command.

—David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry, (New York: Dell Publishing, 1994), 92-93.