The next hour passes swiftly as you continue towards your objective. The distant staccato of a heavy machine gun hastens your pace. Following the sound, you climb a small rise and descend into a small cluster of farm houses and grazing land, now flooded. Dead, bloated livestock litter the fields. Rushing past the first farmhouse you find a group of fellow paratroopers pinned down by several Germans including a pair manning an improvised machine gun nest. From your vantage, the machine gun is to your left and roughly 100 yards away. The German soldiers are spread out in a line on either side of the gun. Nearly 75 yards away are the paratroopers, pinned down and in bad shape. Thinking quickly, you come up with two viable options:
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