Word: bayoneted
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...down to pass a sandbag barricade. The crowds lining the street surged out around us, offered us sesame cookies and handshakes. Farther down the street a South Korean cavalryman put his horse through a victory prance while he waved his rifle aloft, a Communist battle flag impaled on his bayonet...
...Hood's life, was the beginning of a legend. "Down into the creek ravine wallowed [Hood's brigade] under the deadly spittle of the belching artillery on the hill. Up on the other side they came and with a terrific shout gave the first line the bayonet. It fell back on the second line and it broke. As the blue mass retreated up the hill the fire of the Texans was poured into it with terrible effect." Hood had broken through...
...race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
...attack came at dawn. I had just time to empty four clips of my rifle before they had overrun us. My rifle was jammed and wouldn't shoot. I picked up another and it was no good. I yelled to the lieutenant and he tossed me a bayonet. The first enemy wave was past. I figured I had to die, so I dug out a can of fruit cocktail and ate it. Then the lieutenant asked: 'Are you willing to die? If you are, I will call for mortar fire.' I could see the next wave coming...
Soviet Colonel General Terenty Shtykov (in Russian his last name means bayonet man), the real military brain behind the North Korean army. Titularly Soviet ambassador to the Korean "People's Republic," he is actually Stalin's proconsul, ruling North Korea (through Kim II Sung) from his roomy, three-story mansion, built on the site of the old Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that...