Word: ambusher
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Floyd Stahl's Varsity cohorts staged a five-run ambush of two Worcester pitchers in the first inning Saturday on Soldiers Field to insure Jack Wallae his fourth victory of the campaign against four defeats. His teammates garnered him five more runs before the end of the ninth, but the markers scored in the initial frame were more than enough to safeguard the 10 to 2 triumph...
Again & again the enemy had slipped back through the American lines to hide and kill from ambush. Major General Verne D. Mudge, commanding the First Cavalry, had been wounded by a grenade while inspecting a newly captured area. Big, booming-voiced, silver-haired Major General Edwin D. Patrick, commanding the 6th Division, died in a burst of machine-gun fire as he sat in a foxhole on a ridge studying the positions of his troops...
...house used as an aid station. In it were more than 100 wounded. The house flamed into a furnace before more than a few of the wounded could be carried out. But there was vengeance on the perimeter: the wily paratroops let German tanks filter through to ambush by the tank destroyers. The day's score in tanks...
...last June the corporal's battalion, supported by U.S. engineers and artillery, landed, pushed into the Bougainville jungles and ran into a Japanese ambush. The fighting was hot and bloody. Among the Allied casualties was Sefanaia, who had rescued two wounded men before he went down...
...Ambush. The Japs' southernmost fleet suffered least from U.S. aerial pounding during its approach, and reached the scene of battle first. The first-quarter moon had set early, and the morning darkness was deep in Surigao Strait. At the southern end, squadrons of PT boats lay in ambush. As the Huso and Yamasiro entered the narrows with their screen, the PTs attacked. The tiny, bucking craft had made their reputation for dash and expendability in the Philippines, and they lived up to it. They scored some hits, lost several of their number...