Word: bayonetting
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Then the Nazis broke through. They stormed the medical post, began to shoot and bayonet the wounded Britons. One soldier who escaped told how Chaplain Parry pleaded with them to stop...
...dismantled machine gun. It was more Japs than I saw in any other one spot that first day. They had evidently been taking their machine gun apart for withdrawal inland when a bomb or shell scored a direct hit on their hole. A souvenir-hunting Corpsman was removing the bayonet from one Jap's scabbard. A colonel, whose regimental command post was near by, shouted: "You'll get yourself mixed up with a booby trap. Now goddam it, leave him alone...
...dubious, but he handed concussion grenades to a man and told him to blast the Jap out. Then a sharp ping of the Jap bullet whistled out of the hole and from under the logs a skinny little fellow-not much over 5 ft. tall -jumped out waving a bayonet...
...American tossed a grenade and it knocked the Jap down. He struggled up, pointed his bayonet into his stomach and tried to cut himself open in approved hara-kiri fashion. The disemboweling never came off. Someone shot the Jap with a carbine. But, like all Japs, he took a lot of killing. Even after four bullets had thudded into his body he rose to one knee. Then the American shot him through the head and the Jap was dead...
Philip Konowal first came to Canada from the Ukraine in 1913 "to get some money." Two years later he enlisted in the Canadian Corps. In 1917, Corporal Konowal killed 52 Germans with rifle, bayonet and grenade in a single day, won the Victoria Cross. Two days later a German bullet scarred his face for life...