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Word: ammo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They tackled the first warehouse, "trying it for size." It went very well. Ammo cans sizzled and pup-pupped, flames licked heavenward. They fused the second warehouse. Mortar shells began whistling around them. Amid explosion and fire Gleason's furies danced, hugging their TNT as they ran. With gasoline, alcohol and straw they fed the holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: The Destroyers | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Play with Live Ammo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marines: Bring Your Friends | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Ferry to Chungking | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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