A crewman partly opened the hatch, thrust a pistol through, and fired point-blank at the Weapons Company commander. Unhurt, Schmitt jumped down. “You son of a bitch, we’ll fix you!” he said. “Somebody give me a white phosphorous grenade—” Pulling the pin, Schmitt dropped the incendiary grenade on the tank’s back deck, over the air intake. The North Koreans never did come out, though they made a number of unpleasant noises as they stayed inside and burned.
