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...Chin was not the first "human bomb" to be operated on successfully by American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
...when I commanded the 29th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad near Portsmouth, England, I was called to a U.S. Army hospital and asked to identify an object silhouetted on X-ray plates. It was a 20-mm. shell, embedded in the chest of an American merchant seaman who had been on the deck of his ship at Omaha Beach, June 6. A surgeon cut the man open, grasped the shell with forceps and put it into my hands. There were no sandbags, though I did observe a bead or two of sweat...
...search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute. And for the next 40 minutes, Norm Huggins fought for his life...
...secret police had closed in the night before, found bunks, medical supplies and a Russian flag in the building. A heavy, hydraulically operated concrete door led to a cavern in the hillside behind the house. There, in a vault-shaped room, was an impressive arsenal of weapons: a 20-mm. cannon, a 3.5-in. bazooka, stacks of rifles, pistols, homemade mortar tubes and hundreds of shells, grenades and shaped demolition charges. With lathes, presses and other tools-and a gasoline generator to power them-terrorists had been turning out enough arms to supply a small army...
...felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades need to travel that far before exploding...