Word: bayoneted
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...would just as soon run my bayonet through the foremost young man in your race riot photo as I would through any other enemy of democracy. And I think there are plenty of other bayonets down here to back...
Suddenly a bayonet pressed against his collarbone. A huge hand gagged his terrified grunt. On the sleeve he could just make out a swastika. Thirty seconds later all hell began as bombs exploded and rifles and machine guns chattered throughout the woods. Two minutes later the firing stopped. The company began counting its losses: one lieutenant; one sentry; 13 other enlisted...
Sherrod was in the front lines with our boys on Buffalo Nose ridge, where one of the bitterest battles of the campaign was fought. He saw U.S. soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...
...fanaticism stagger the imagination. The very violence of the scene is incomprehensible to the Western mind. Here groups of men had met their self-imposed obligation, to die rather than accept capture, by blowing them selves to bits. I saw one Jap sitting impaled on a bayonet which was stuck through his back, evidently by a friend. All the other suicides had chosen the grenade. Most of them simply held grenades against their stomachs or chests. The explosive charge blasted away their vital organs. Probably one in four held a grenade against his head. There were many headless Jap bodies...
Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It takes guts...