Word: burping
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Later he slipped into the next room where his guards were dozing, grabbed a Russian burp gun. He planned to fire three bursts: one to bring his chief interrogator, whom he hated, into the room; the second to kill him; and the third into his own mouth, to end his life. Before he could get the gun to work, a guard heard him fumbling with the safety and sprang on him, knocking him down. "There is a brave man," said General Dean when he saw the guard later...
...train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...
...France, Navarre got command of an armored regiment of Moroccan Spahis, as part of General de Lattre's Army of the Rhine and Danube. One day while Navarre, the assiduous information gatherer, was reconnoitering alone along a forest road in a jeep, he found himself looking down the burp-gun barrels of the German rearguard-about 40 men. Navarre, who speaks excellent German, barked out: "Drop your guns. You are surrounded. You are my prisoners. March down that road and surrender to my Moroccans." The bluff worked and the Germans did as they were told-but De Lattre instructed...
...Bolt on the Door. In the village schoolhouse, the chatter of the burp guns could not be heard. But as babies wailed and the women took worried counsel of each other, they sensed trouble. Soon they smelled it, then saw it. The Nazis had set torches to the village. Smoke seeped through cracks in the schoolhouse floor. In panic, the women crashed at the bolted door. It would not give. But their screaming and beating was too much for the lone soldier guarding the door. Moved by pity, he pulled the bolt, and the village women rushed out. Before them...
...only 17 years old when the Reds shot him in both legs, then captured him, one day late in 1950. He was one of 20 men guarding a 40-truck convoy carrying some 800 U.S. wounded toward Hamhung. "The Chinese climbed up on the trucks," he said, "and sprayed burp guns into the wounded. Then they bayoneted them. The wounded were screaming. They couldn't do anything." Pfc. Cox assumed that most of them died. There were no medics at the first P.W. camp he went to. so two buddies amputated his useless, festering feet with a penknife...