Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pace that Kills. The grand total for two days: 440 planes, laboriously siphoned out of Manchuria and other northern bases for the last-ditch stand in the Philippines. No air force could stand this rate of attrition. The Japs knew it. But all they could do about it was to speed measures for evacuating eleven of their largest cities and improvising air raid shelters-to be planned within a week and finished within five days thereafter...
...almost dawn. All night long a policeman had been walking his beat through a dreary Lima district. Suddenly, as day broke, he saw a blood-chilling sight. On the bank of an irrigation ditch were seven bodies. Two were men, two women, three small children. All had their heads bashed in. All were Japanese...
...stave off annihilation. Two Jap shells made near misses on our amphtrack, pelted its sides with shrapnel. When we reached the beach another mortar a few yards distant spouted bloodily against the smoky island background, killed one Marine, wounded two others. We had to dig for cover in a ditch because our front lines were only 25 yards inland...
...hours, 12,800 passed the lines; in 36 hours, more than 17,000. But there were more thousands to go; a four-hour extension was granted. A score of German soldiers who had no stomach for the last-ditch stand Hitler had ordered tried to slip through, dressed in civilian clothes, but they were stopped...
...been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...