Word: bayonetted
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...Hunters' Teller. Some new German mines have nonmetallic casings to foil the electrical detectors. Some have chemical rather than metallic fuses. One type has a soft plastic case which raises no hum in the electrical locators. To a probing bayonet, it feels like the surrounding earth. The new ratchet mine has a geared fuse wheel which moves around, a notch at a time, when a wheel goes over it. This mine can be set to go off after any number of vehicles (from one to 29) have passed safely...
...them exchange race tips. . . . Now I had to have everything but a blood test. I didn't recognize a single guard until the ten-minute grilling and clothes brushing was over and I was inside, with an uneasy feeling that I'd be nudged by a bayonet any minute...
...Goring Division (Libya, Tunisia, Sicily) surrendered Cervaro only after hours of artillery, machine-gun, grenade fire. Then they counterattacked with eight companies, tanks, self-propelled guns. Repulsed at last, they left a few prisoners-arrogant, undaunted teen-age Nazis. Said Private Donald Gunther, prodding two of them with a bayonet: "You're just a couple of Krauts...
...poison gas is horrible. But it is also horrible to have a leg or face blown away by a high-explosive shell, to be buried alive by a bomb, to be instantly charred by the machine-gun-melting heat of a flamethrower, or to be impaled by a bayonet...
...engineers bulldoze a grade down to the riverbed, up the other side. Then in the darkness our infantry moves up to the next height with bayonet and grenade...