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...near the town looking for two platoons of C company which we had lost. I heard the orders shouted for evacuation. I went back to the beach. There was an assault boat stuck, so I ran out to help push it off. A ricocheted bullet smacked me on the forehead, knocking me into the water. I couldn't see out of one eye. But the boat got away all right...
...that boat and made for a motor gunboat. Mac pulled me aboard, that's Sergeant Major McEvoy, a grand guy. He told me my eye was gone and he bandaged my forehead. We got orders to transfer to a destroyer and Mac practically carried me up those ropes. I was pretty weak. He put me in the sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown...
Jackson's gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...
...perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead...
Plugger. In Tacoma, David C. Montgomery shot himself in the head with his rifle, reloaded, shot himself in the chest, reloaded, shot himself in the forehead. At the hospital he was expected to recover...