Word: bayoneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealer!" Next morning 30 newsmen and photographers milled around Montgomery Ward's main entrance, their way barred by soldiers. A lieutenant came out, told the newsmen a press room had been set up on the seventh floor. Virtually imprisoned in this room for 20 minutes (a bayonet-wielding soldier barred the door), the newsmen were finally ushered into Sewell Avery's office...
Actually the infantryman of today comes nearer to being a man of all weapons. Except for the airplane, the tank and the artillery, the infantry uses most of the weapons in the arsenal of a modern army: not only the rifle and bayonet but the Tommy gun, machine gun, mortar, hand and rifle grenades, bazooka, flame thrower, good-sized anti-tank artillery...
Said "Whitey" McNair: "It takes the man with the rifle, the bayonet and the grenade, dragging his weary feet after him ... to get in there with guts and brains. He has to put the finishing touches, the copper-riveted handiwork, on the craftsmanship of the air force, the artillery and the tank corps...
They opened up with a hail of machine-gun fire, shooting from cellars, from shell holes, from behind any pile of stone or debris. There was no way to discourage them except the classical infantry way: a personal bullet, a private grenade, an individual bayonet thrust...
...thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed from his body and with several bayonet wounds...