Word: shellbursts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally straightened out the records of the Massey twins, Laughn W. and Vaughn W., who served in the same training class, went to Europe on the same ship, served in the same unit, were promoted twice to the same grades on the same days, were wounded by the same shellburst, went to the same field hospital, were discharged from the same camp the same day, went to work for the same company and enrolled in the same business school, where they took the same courses...
...after that, he was in and ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them to another wounded man. Then a shellburst shattered his arm. He lashed a rifle stock to the arm, managed to crawl hundreds of yards to safety...
...then to me. As I drink, I hear the first version of a question which I am to hear many times in the next few days: "What in goddamned hell are you doing here?'' I say I have come up for dinner and he says: "Dinner!" Another shellburst leaves nothing to be added to this remark...
...Command. This officer's battalion commander was wounded in his command post about an hour after it was set up-a nasty mortar tear in his backside. The major took over command, but after a couple of hours he was slightly wounded in the back by a shellburst. Then an observer took over until a regular turned up. He was the fourth commander of the battalion within ten hours...
...shellburst in Italy last week killed a terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...