Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...British Tommy . . . not only for myself but for every American who has seen active service with the British. . . . For sheer guts and the ability to keep coming back he has no superiors. I remember one night at Alamein. . . . We were trying to get through the minefields. . . . Tanks were to blast their way through, spread out on the other side, and work forward. We were being followed by a unit of light infantry...
...TIME Correspondent William Walton: "When we hit the German coast they were throwing everything in the German Air Force at us. Some thing knocked out half our ship's oxygen system, the half on the pilot's side. Then a bullet tore through the nose. Such a blast of air came in that both pilot and co-pilot began to freeze. One was barehanded, the other had only light dress gloves, and we were above 20,000 feet. Within a couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down an Me-110 trying...
...Full-blast initiative in the war of nerves has belonged to the Allies ever since the African victory. But the Nazis still work at it. Latest product of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda factory is the much-advertised Britain." German Trained military seals "offensive-defensive in Berlin against talk freely about it to neutral correspondents and plenty is permitted to "leak" across Axis borders. Axis troops and small ships have been moved ostentatiously from Baltic to North Sea coasts. Hundreds of high-speed boats, some driven by airscrews, are reported concentrated in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Holland is said to be full...
Around us, the demonstration was going full blast. The tow planes had swung back overhead and were dropping more paratroops. The sky seemed to blossom and fill with 'chutes, white for the men and bright colors for specific types of packed equipment. Several other wrecked gliders were lying on the field. Men were scurrying by, organizing their positions and setting up mortars, machine guns and bazooka positions. Enemy tanks and cavalry appeared, blasting away with blank ammunition in a confusion of swirling dust and bright sunshine...