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Marine Lieut. Lawson Brammer thought he saw something dark hurtling through the Okinawa sky. Before he could duck it slapped him on the shoulder, spun him around, threw him eight feet and sent his gun flying. Then it plowed a gash in the ground, ricocheted, hit again 300 yards away and exploded. Unbruised, Lieut. Brammer had cold-shouldered a Japanese shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tap Day | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...only sounds came from little children who were wounded but not dead. . . . I saw one little boy with a big V-shaped gash in the back of his head who was walking around. A doctor told me that the child couldn't possibly live and would die any minute of shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Islands of Fear | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Whose Initiative? | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...less than a hundred yards to go when the Crocks started shooting their flame across the canal. It seared the gloom with a great orange-red gash. We broke into a trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...game between Lowell and the Eliot V-12 resulted in a 31 to 0 walkaway for the navy team, which captured the House grid title last term. Score at the half read 13 to 0 for Eliot but when Lowell's hard-running back Wally Robb received a gash over the left eye and had to leave the game, Lowell went to pieces, committing glaring errors on both the defense and offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Out to Explode Eliot V-12 Myth Today | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

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