Interesting read on first hand accounts of the 'battle of peleliu'
"The second vignette concerned a marine who broke under fire. “The poor marine had cracked up completely. The stress of combat had finally shattered his mind…he screamed more loudly…he fought like a wildcat, yelling and screaming at the top of his voice…morphine…had no effect…the noise would announce our exact location to any enemy…(it was suggested that he be hit) with the flat of that entrenching shovel”!2 At morning’s first light that marine was found dead from the shovel’s trauma. A macabre twist on friendly fire."
https://hekint.org/2017/01/22/peleliu-as...-stare/amp
"The second vignette concerned a marine who broke under fire. “The poor marine had cracked up completely. The stress of combat had finally shattered his mind…he screamed more loudly…he fought like a wildcat, yelling and screaming at the top of his voice…morphine…had no effect…the noise would announce our exact location to any enemy…(it was suggested that he be hit) with the flat of that entrenching shovel”!2 At morning’s first light that marine was found dead from the shovel’s trauma. A macabre twist on friendly fire."
https://hekint.org/2017/01/22/peleliu-as...-stare/amp
