Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left in a hospital...
...with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic Reporter Gene McLain had part of his shoe sole...
...flight, giving them the news which was still withheld from the public-mainly because full publicity might have endangered some of the survivors.* Every letter was different. "They had to be different-like mine, for instance," said Captain Ted Lawson last week, pointing to the stump of his left leg. Said Lieut. C. L. McClure, a navigator whose shoulders were dislocated...
Visitors at Manhattan's Perls Galleries last week walked into two small rooms full of blood. Blood trickled over bare bosoms and in a pattern of veins up & down the stomach of a lady, whose only leg was a gigantic sausage that tapered off into a yawning volcano. Blood also oozed from the terrifying eye of an outsize male head. Blood was conspicuous in nearly all Painter Frederick Haucke's 20 nightmarish oils...
Early last December, on his way to his post, he flew to Honolulu, but there his plane was delayed two days. On the morning of Dec. 7, early-rising Lou Claterbos sat in his Moana Hotel room writing his wife a last letter before taking off on the next leg of his trip to Africa...