Word: bayonetting
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...High port: the cross-body position for holding a rifle in a bayonet position...
...successfully as yours. Typical of that is the remark of a brother G.I. at our first mail-call on French soil. We were in a semicircle about the mail orderly when someone deep in the ranks bellowed "TIME mag at last! The first bastard who intercepts it gets a bayonet where it will hurt most, and I'm not kidding." That man expressed my sentiments exactly. If the people back home would send us TIME instead of backdated newspapers, newspaper clippings, cartoons and what have you, they would be saving our time and their own. ... (CPL.) CHARLES T. SCHUCK...
...evening of the third day the attack had stalled. The divisional commander, in short, unhappy grunts, gave the old, sad diagnosis-the Japs were dug in; the Chinese could not clean out the enemy with rifle, bayonet and machine gun alone...
Beyond, in the open field, the bodies of some of the American gunners were being laid in rows beside the command tent. Farther on there were nine dead Japs in a ditch. One of them still clutched a stick with a bayonet tied to it. Nearby, beside a burning jeep, lay the body of a lieutenant. Corporal Anthony Kouma told us he had begged to be shot because he was so badly wounded. Kouma had said: "You'll be all right, sir," but the officer had died within a few minutes...
Hours later British patrols recaptured the area. In the medical post every man was dead. Chaplain Parry, his body pierced by bayonet wounds, lay among the men he had tried to save...