Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, 6,027 U.S. soldiers had lost at least one arm or leg in World War II. Of these, 331 have lost two limbs. There have been no "basket cases" (all four). Last week at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, Corporal Ralph A. Brown of Youngstown, Ohio, the second serviceman to lose three limbs, viewed his future cheerfully. His plans: to walk out of the hospital; to go back to the dairy business...
...issue there appeared an erroneous statement regarding pension for the loss of a leg, which follows: "e.g., $30 a month for a leg...
Pension for the loss of a leg is paid on the basis of the degree of disability suffered by the veteran . . . ranging from $11.50 a month for a 10% disability to $115 a month for a 100% disability. In addition to this disability pension, a statutory award of $35 a month is paid for the loss of a limb...
...TIME erred, is happy to correct the figure upward. The maximum for complete loss of a leg, rated as 90% disability, is $138.50 a month...
...night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good leg...