Word: cots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Naval Hospital in San Diego came an unforgettable story of valor on a bloody night on jungled Guadalcanal. On an iron hospital cot lay Marine Private Albert A. Schmid, 23, husky son of a Philadelphia brewery worker, who, on a moonlight night last August, manned a machine gun that almost singlehandedly cut off an enemy advance...
Said Private Moore from his hospital cot: "I got up next to the sergeant guarding the turret and one of the Japs stuck his head down inside. I shot him right between the eyes. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and I saw the tank commander go down. Then I felt a burning pain in my neck and realized they must have thrown a grenade down the turret. A few moments later they set fire to the tank. The driver and I figured it was better to get outside and get shot rather than burn to death. The driver poked...
...Besides being charged with war guilt, Paul Reynaud is accused of embezzlement, Mandel of high treason for trying to deal with the British after France fell. Also accused of war guilt is ex-Air Minister Pierre Cot, now researching a history of France in the Library of Congress at Washington...
...true story of the U.S.S. Kearny, which was torpedoed but not sunk three weeks ago, was told from a hospital cot after she arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, by Ensign Henry Lyman, of Ponkapog, Mass...
...hands had been amputated after frostbite in Albania. No winter equipment had been provided for the Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...