Word: fragmenting
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...Death by Fragment. In the next room McCarthy and Dowling were trying to help Terry. There was nothing anyone could do for Ace Bush. He had been instantly killed by a fragment. His body was virtually un marked, his face calm and serene. It was obvious that he had not known even a momentary flash of panic or pain...
During the 76 hours of violent battle at Tarawa last November the Marines' beachhead commander, 39-year-old Colonel David M. Shoup, of Battle Ground, Indiana, carefully concealed a painful fact: as he waded ashore his leg had been pierced by a shell fragment. For that wound, indestructible, broad-beamed Colonel Shoup received his second Purple Heart (he had been wounded before by a bomb at New Georgia...
...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification...
Their bombs blew Tweed's house apart so that he had to drag his bed under a fragment of roof to keep out of the rain. He woke up in the night at the sound of firing but foggily decided that it was practice and went back to sleep. He did not realize that the Japs had landed until he heard their field guns firing. Then Tweed walked down to Government House to get the score and found that the Governor was going to surrender...
...Brereton, who had bossed the Ninth U.S. (Tactical) Air Force in its scourging campaign in France in support of Allied ground troops. Annapolis-trained Lewis Brereton had seen more of World War II than most U.S. generals. In the attack on the Philippines he had lost all but a fragment of his air force, had moved on to Java, then to India, where he organized the Tenth Air Force, then to the Middle East where he commanded the Ninth which made the first great raids on the Ploesti oilfields...