Word: battlefield
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...along the fighting fronts. Americans at home, who take it for granted their sons are fighting with the best equipment in the world, are surprised at the German qualitative superiority." But not only with tanks and guns, said Baldwin, have the Germans beaten us on and to the battlefield. They have shown us the way with rockets, robot bombs, jet-propelled planes...
...battlefield east of Celles was a white silence, darkly blotched with corpses and wreckage. At Celles, three miles short of the Meuse River, the German spearhead which had reached 50 miles into Belgium was blunted and turned back...
...wrote in a letter of recommendation that in view of Lt. Hackett's serious wounds received in battle, he had used him in a training inspection capacity which called for talks to junior officers and men undergoing training, for the purpose of instilling into them the realities of the battlefield...
...battlefield near Metz lay a wounded rifleman, clutching his neck and writhing in agony. His windpipe had been fractured by a mortar shell fragment; he was suffocating. Medical Corpsman Duane N. Kinman, 19, crawled to his aid through heavy machine-gun and mortar fire; 2nd Lieut. Edwin M. Eberling of Lincoln, Neb. joined...
...books say that a good light is essential, that the patient's neck must be held very steady to avoid cutting the nearby jugular veins. While Lieut. Eberling held the struggling rifleman down, Private Kinman had to do as best he could by the murky light of the battlefield...