Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sergeant took charge of the dozen or more men participating. First he handed a marine a hand grenade. The marine jumped into the quarry and began to edge toward the cave while one of his pals covered him with a Garand. The grenade was tossed into the cave. It burst with a muffled thud. In a movie version of killing Japs, the incident might have ended at this point. But marines have long since learned that one grenade does not always finish off the occupants of a cave or pillbox; almost invariably there are five to 20 Japs in whatever...
...Battle of Russia). This was the front where the Germans had hoped to hold the line while they dealt with the invaders from the west. The measure of their strength in 1944's crucial summer was that the Russians, from the first day of the new offensive, had burst shatteringly through their defenses in one of the worst defeats Germany had suffered on the eastern front since Stalingrad...
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
...shelling there, after we had landed, was more rugged. The general set up his command post about 20 yards inland. In an aid station near by in a deep tank trap, there were 14 casualties. The water which seeped through the sand was already red with blood. Artillery fire burst continuously around the aid station but no direct hits were scored...
...succession of Jap artillery shells. From 8 until 9, from 11 until 1, and from 4 until 5, Jap artillery guns and mortars laid rough patterns along the beach and some 500 yards inland-one shell every five seconds. Around our command post and aid station perhaps 20 shells burst within 25 yards but as far as I know no one was hit during the night in our area. Men who are in holes are hard...