An operation was planned for the 17th in which the 25thBn were to move forward and capture a number of German posts on the mound beside the railway line. At 9.30pm the Australian barrage began. All companies moved forward under the barrage and met extremely heave machine gun fire from the...
(as opposed to his father, ''Big Al'') Beccaccio hurled for the Red Sox. Rodney ''Hot Rod'' Coleman threw for the Dodgers. Coleman says when he took to the mound, besting his buddy was his biggest concern. There was little variation to the mantra bouncing around in his head: ''I...