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And grenades and mortars filled the air as german soldiers concealed in their defensive position opened fire an the 10th mountain. the company commander called lieutenant dole and told him to continue the attack. he gave his platoon the mission to take out the german machine gun nest. lieutenant dole assembled the assault squad and positioned the rest of his men forward to provide covering fire. he was 21 years old. he and his soldiers attacked without hesitation, led by the lieutenant, lieutenant bob dole. initially crawling on their bellies through an open field, and then rushing forward up ...
Northern italy. in the companies mission was to attack and seize hill 913, a small hill located just to the northwest of the town and that hill covered, it was a dominating feature and covered the terrain at the mouth of the valley that the u.s. forces needed to cross. the company, including second lieutenant dole and his second platoon, commenced the attack in the early morning hours of 14, february, 1945. less than 30 days before v.e. day, celebrating the end of the war in europe in may. after only going a short distance, one of the men in front of the column in lieutenant dole's platoon ste...
Bob Dole was a happy undergrad at the University of Kansas in 1942. 'He didn't want to go to war,' Richard Ben Cramer writes in chapter 5 of What It Takes: The Way to the White House, his doorstop 'masterpiece' (as Jonathan Martin called it when Cramer died in 2013). Dole was happily 'fooling around' on campus and at his fraternity, pursuing his studies, going out for football, baseball, and