Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have on. If caught undressed, grab a shirt and pants anyway. Clothing saves skin on the trip down a rope or a rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
...Once he licked a truckload of taunting soldiers one by one. On Attu last month Joe Mendoza came upon an unarmed Jap cowering behind a rock. Joe started to shoot, but his sense of fair play got the better of him. Throwing down his rifle, he whipped out a knife. Then he tossed the Jap a bayonet and beckoned him to come on. This act of gallantry frightened the Jap more than the prospect of death itself; he ran. Joe Mendoza, conscience free, shot...
...twas like turning the knife in the wound when you gave out with "Good Morning, Navy Dear." We write this at 0615 one morning while still mad, but we in Mellon know youse guys is really swell people, so we humbly suggest reveille calls inside the dorms instead of in the alley, and musters back of Glass Hall before 0700. Thanks, Army, for hearin' our gripe...
...before entering a hospital to reserve a place on the 'table.' An operation means 15 to 20 days being waited on in comfortable surroundings. . . . The actual operation is much more easily performed as there are no thick layers of fat for the surgeon's knife to hew through...