Word: bayonetting
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...fighters clawed Red positions with rockets and machine guns. At dusk the Chinese came in again. The 23rd's ammunition ran low. G.I.s combed the glove compartments of jeeps for spare cartridges. When the Chinese assaulted a French-held hill, the Frenchmen threw them back with a bayonet charge...
During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...
Almost continuously for eleven hours, North Koreans attacked a ridge position held by a valiant Negro platoon led by Lieut. Harry Sutton of The Bronx, N.Y. Bayonet-wielding Reds reached Sutton's trenches and turned a U.S. machine gun on the Americans. But Sutton's men hung on, and finally, after receiving reinforcements, drove the enemy...
...Chinese soldiers attacking a ridge line near Waewon last week were shocked to come face to face with swarthy, fiercely mustachioed Turks howling down upon them with bayonets fixed. In this and other Turkish bayonet charges some 200 Chinese were killed, and soon stories of the Turks were spreading like a tonic along the U.N. line...
tolerate guards with dirty boots, later sent for the assistant commandant of the camp and sternly reminded him : "I am a General. I am entitled to a sentry with a fixed bayonet." On the day he was trans ferred to another prison, the general showed up "as smartly dressed as though he had been going on a ceremonial parade...