We Happy Few/// Band of Brothers fanfiction

Chapter 4: Carentan

Gabriella's POV

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Time Skip- a couple days or so

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We left the village and traveled through the night towards Carentan. F Company lead the way until we kept losing them. Light and Noise Discipline ticked off a bunch of the men because they weren't allowed to smoke. Lucky for me, I didn't have that problem. We reached the town of Carentan by about 11 in the morning the next day; every single one of us was tired of walking by then. We were stopped right before we could see the town. Crouching was better than standing and most of us even sat on our knees while hunched over. Anything was better than standing. Winters went up to scout with a couple others before coming back and instruction first platoon to go up the middle before rapid fire rained down on us. We took cover in the ditches while Winters yelled at us to move forward, but no one moved. Luz and Welsh were stuck behind a building; they were the only ones to get farther than the road.

"Edwards! Get the platoon moving!" Winters called to me from the other side of the road. I nodded before moving forward around the guys.

"Let's get moving! Let's go! Move forward!" I yelled at them, pushing and pulling them forward with me as we crawled through the ditch. They were all to stubborn to move so I made my way to the front of the line and made a run for it down into the line of fire, hoping they would grow a pair and follow.

Nothing.

I dodged bullets right and left before sliding into cover behind the same building Luz and Welsh were hiding behind.

"Where is everybody?!" Luz shouted over the gunfire. I stood up straight against the wall.

"They're all cowering in the ditches! I couldn't get them to move!" I told them as pieces of the building chipped off with the bullets. I saw a couple men move through the bushes around the buildings and try and shoot the guns firing at us from a building directly in front of the road. Shifty Powers managed to snipe one of the shooters, giving us a split second to move before another took over, firing at Shifty's position. I peered around Luz and Welsh and took a shot at the shooter on the top floor before Welsh went out with a grenade in hand. He ran straight towards the guns before throwing the grenade into window and taking cover on the ground. Luz and Hoobler moved on to clear the buildings while I ran to clear the right sector with Gaurnere, Perconte and one other. We started clearing buildings while guns still fired at the men by the road. Panzers blew the sides out of buildings before we cleared through.

"They've got us zeroed in! Spread it out!" I heard Shifty shout from the warehouse. I looked up to the sky to see a bomb about to fall near us.

"Incoming!" I screamed before running in the opposite direction. The bomb made impact and the force was big enough to fling me forward. I felt multiple limbs make contact with the ground in ways they shouldn't have and I was lucky nothing felt broken. I had felt a sharp pain in my arm closer to my right shoulder and another closer to my ankle. My head throbbed as my ears began to ring and my vision coming back from black.

"Edwards! You alright!" someone asked, pulling me by some loose fabric of my jacket. I looked up, my vision blurry, but I could tell it was Perconte. For the most part, he dragged me across the road where we took cover behind a building as a couple more bombs fell. There was more gunfire before I saw some Krauts moving a wheeled canon across a courtyard and towards a marsh of some kind where most of them retreated before being shot down before blacking out.

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We made up a makeshift med house where we found Winters. He had caught a piece of a ricochet bullet to the leg. The rest of us continued to move through houses and buildings before raiding them for food and water. We all had some time to recuperate. I sat in the shade of a half torn down building. The impact of that bomb behind me and the impact I made on the ground made me nauseous. I probably hit my head and didn't know it. I also had caught pieces of ricochet to my arm and leg, but hadn't made it to see Roe. The shade was better than behind out in the sun. I drank what was left of my canteen and tried to eat something. I held it down okay until a wave of stench passed by me. Boy, was I up in a hurry. I ran- more like hobbled- around another building where no one could see me as I puked up any bread I had for breakfast and the water I had just drank.