Once upon a time a man was in a boat, but it was no ordinary boat. It was a boat filled with men travelling to a war that was not a normal war; the men were in fact soldiers travelling to Gallipoli. The men were praying and asking to help them win.

An hour passed and the signaller said 10 seconds to dock! The doors opened and ‘ehehehehehtghtghtghttg, Boom!’ The Germans’ guns were firing madly at the Americans getting out of the boats. One man on the beach fired a rocket at the main turret and three Germans came out screaming for their lives. They were all on fire. The man said: “ I am Colonel O’Neil from the United States Army.”

 He looked up at the beach barrier and saw more than two hundred soldiers out of harm’s way. Immediately all the soldiers started running up to the bunkers, trenches, turrets and barbed fence. They made it past the bunkers and turrets shooting anything in their paths. Colonel O’Neil pulled down the fences and jumped into a trench. His platoon was the only one with men getting this far. The rest of the men were at the turrets. Twenty-four Germans had taken a position and surrounded the colonel and his platoon and then ‘KABOOM!’ The soldiers back at the turrets   blew them all up.

Once it was all over the colonel and his platoon set off to find the satellite tower that was in the middle of Turkey. The platoon found it and two hundred and eighty-nine German soldiers with it. One of the platoon soldiers fired a rocket at the Germans and wiped out two hundred and eight soldiers. They shot the rest and advanced up to the bunker. O’Neil said : “let’s continue up to the bridge since we’ve covered the satellite tower.”

Twenty-eight minutes later they heard something going across the ground. O’Neil said: “ tank wrap cover!” A German army tank was going across the dirt road. The men had been walking on. Luckily the troops were lying in long yellow grass. Then suddenly the tank stopped. ‘Boom!’ The tank’s top exploded. Germans were coming out of the tank from north to west in armour with machine guns at the ready. Then O’Neil and his men were looking around at all the Germans. They were being shot by something.

The troops stood up and saw that on the other side of the tank were soldiers from the Fourth Division.

The division took O’Neil and his troops to the bridge and set up each of his units in buildings, towers, trenches and on the river bank.

Ten minutes later they saw six tiger tanks, 1000 German soldiers and two jeeps. They took their positions and shot at the troops. They wiped out the soldiers and used the rocket launchers to shoot the tanks. The colonel’s men won the war.

This story is in memory of those who died that day.

By Tim   Year 6.