Soldier Girls in Action
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In this first digital original novella set in the world of the Front Lines series, Michael Grant showcases the real-life female journalists of World War II who became the first women war correspondents in history.
When fierce reporter Anne “Spats” Patrone joins the front lines, she gains access to the female soldiers of Second Squad, Fifth Platoon, Company A, 119th Division, including Rio Richlin. During her journalistic investigation on the front lines she will discover that women are capable of much more than fighting. But what starts out as a pursuit for a story turns deadly when Germans attack. Will Spats make it out alive?
Michael Grant
Michael Grant, author of the Gone series, the Messenger of Fear series, the Magnificent Twelve series, and the Front Lines trilogy, has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, with whom he cowrote the wildly popular Animorphs series. You can visit him online at www.themichaelgrant.com and follow him on Twitter @MichaelGrantBks.
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Soldier Girls in Action - Michael Grant
CONTENTS
Begin Reading
Author’s Note
Excerpt from Silver Stars
Back Ads
About the Author
Books by Michael Grant
Copyright
About the Publisher
LADIES’ MONTHLY MAGAZINE, MAY 1943
THE SOLDIER GIRLS IN ACTION
—BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ANN SPATS
PATRONE
Ladies of America, by the time you read this exclusive report the fighting in Tunisia will be all over, but the war has just begun for our boys in uniform—boys who have now been joined by girls. I recently had occasion to spend some time with the soldiers of Second Squad, Fifth Platoon, Company A, 119th Division, and I saw firsthand the way some of our soldier girls behave in battlefield conditions.
This is not the story of the battle of Kasserine Pass. It is not the story of any great battle of the sort you read about in history books. This is the story of one of those numberless, small but vicious fights that test a soldier’s courage and determination and all too often end not with the awarding of medals, but with Taps
being played mournfully over a fresh grave.
I had missed most of the heavy combat by the time I made it to North Africa, having, as regular readers will recall, been held up in Burma. But I was determined to see whatever was left of the fighting, so upon my arrival at the headquarters of 119th Division outside Ghezala, Tunisia, I found a young corporal named Milo Jorgenson who had temporary ownership of a jeep.
So, where are we going, Corporal?
I asked him.
Nowhere good, ma’am. There’s a squad in a ravine up in them mountains, there? Got themselves some Kraut dead-enders that didn’t get the word that it’s over, I guess. SNAFU.
SNAFU, ladies, is the acronym of choice for GIs. It stands for Situation Normal: All Fouled Up. Though another word is sometimes substituted for Fouled.
Corporal Jorgenson agreed (after a negotiation involving a carton of cigarettes) to allow me to tag along on a mission to run ammunition to the infantry squad deep in the rugged foothills of the Atlas Mountains.
I soon discovered why we were carrying ammunition in a small jeep rather than one of the big trucks the GIs call deuce-and-a-halfs. It seems the only road into this remote fastness was within range of the very German mortar team we were going to see about, and we didn’t want to give them any more