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...land mine. British troops pursuing Rommel were delayed last week while their sappers (engineers) fished in the earth to remove land mines buried beneath the African desert. Moscow reported that several Russian tanks had hit mines buried deep in the snow, but that the way had been cleared by mortar fire...
...Cape Endaiadere, at Gona, at Buna Mission, on the flanks of the Buna airstrip, on the track from Soputa to Cape Sanananda, everywhere the enemy has picked his own positions. He has established concrete gun-pits and dug grenade-proof, mortar-proof nests beneath the roots of the giant jungle trees. He has put keeneyed snipers in hundreds of treetops. He has mown down the grass and jungles to give lanes of sweeping fire to his guns. From such positions companies can hold up battalions, and battalions can resist divisions...
...MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The besieged Japanese defense positions in the Buna area of New Guinea are being kept under continous artillery and mortar fire while Allied planes continue to blast them with bombs and bullets the Allied Command announced today...
...Wars; New Wounds. Russian statistics show how mechanization of war has changed the military surgeon's problems. Says the Red Army's Chief Surgeon Nikolai N. Burdenko: "The percentage of bullet wounds is comparatively small; most casualties are now due to bombing, mortar fire and grenades." In World War I, 50% of wounds were caused by shrapnel (or shell fragments); today 95% belong to this category (counting each wound separately-one man often receives several wounds at the same time). Next to wounds of the arms and legs, the largest group of major wounds involves the skull...
...accompanied our troops three weeks ago when they crossed the barbed wire to drive the Japs back 10 miles behind the Mata-nikau River. He was the only correspondent with the Marines when they got caught in a jungle valley which had been neatly registered for 81-mm. Stokes mortar fire by the Japs. Snipers and machine gunners were busy there, too, and for a while it was pretty...