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...Lethal five-inch guns aboard our 'tin cans' [destroyers] opened up while the raiders still were thousands of yards away. All the time our fighters were darting in & out. One flustered raider unloaded a stick of bombs at least a mile from any objective...
...Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress...
...storm was wheezing out toward the Atlantic, it added one more to its total of twelve victims. In Brooklyn, N.Y., it toppled a cornice from a limestone front, buried a Miss Essie Stone, 55, under a pile of lethal debris...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...
...slide was more than a half a mile wide and 150 feet high when it hit the town, a roaring, lethal gumbo of mud, water and boulders. In minutes it had swept over a whole section of the town, strewed bodies six miles down the road, mounded up in the riverbed and changed the river's course...