Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Japs had isolated the central Philippines in 1942, hard-bitten Philippine Scouts, Philippine Army men and U.S. Army stragglers had kept up the fight. To get ammunition, they had dived to retrieve thousands of rounds in a sunken Jap ship and some had burst their eardrums in the job. Fifteen out of 16 rounds had misfired, but even soaked ammunition was better than no ammunition...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
Behind this ring of fire, the operator could watch until some soldier drew near, then touch off a hellish burst. Allied officials said the weapon shot a jet flame 15 yards, where it ballooned out into a ball of fire 40 yards in diameter. Jerry called it the Abwehrflammenwerfer (defensive flame-thrower...
...rate, by July 17 it was clear that in Normandy as in North Africa Rommel was again a defeated commander. That day, as Rommel sped down a French road in his staff car, an Allied fighter pilot dipped down for a burst. The car smashed up, Rommel was wounded. This week Berlin announced that he was dead...
...even if that breakthrough is achieved, the First will not yet have an other Saint-LÔ. The West Wall break will have to be vastly widened before tanks can be rocketed through to burst out toward Cologne and Dusseldorf, Ike Eisenhower may have to achieve other breaks or fight around the northern flank on to the north German plain before he can break his tanks loose. For the time. Hodges' First was in the best position to bring about that situation. But only history would tell whether the First's drive in the Aachen sector would...