Shelling Quotes

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.”
― Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

“Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.”
― David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

“War shapes itself around them, gunfire that sounds like pneumatic drilling, shelling that drums the earth and sends shudders into the house, the windows and the wooden floors rattling...”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“Hours of bombing with the possibility of being blown to bits, buried alive, or being blown off their feet paralyzed many with fear. It is estimated that seventy percent of all casualties on the Western Front were from shellfire. As the shells fell, Roy tried to think of home, shake the hysteria with flippant humor, or just light a cigarette with shaking hands. Being shelled was like a nightmare. One soldier described it as “distant thunder, countless shells falling like rain, towers of smoke, fire, explosions, confusion, cries of help, all of it madness.”
― Paul T. Dean, Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War

“As Peleliu dragged on, I feared that if I ever lost control of myself under shell fire my mind would be shattered.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“As Peleliu dragged on, I feared that if I ever lost control of myself under shell fire my mind would be shattered.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa