Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first stunning shock, the defenders swung into action. Spotters in the Navy Yard signal tower picked up the attackers, flashed air-raid warnings via visual signals. Working coolly under enemy bombs and machine-gun fire and shrapnel from defending anti-aircraft batteries, the signalmen routed scores of orders to ships standing out to sea or fighting from berths...
Manila itself was bombed again, but thunderous anti-aircraft fire filled the skies with exploding shrapnel and forced the Japanese airmen to speed away within five minutes...
...second squadron arrives; they try to traverse the city but are thrown to and fro by the A.A. fire which is now thundering out, and spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...
...Piccadilly "calm, broad, empty, filled with its early morning shadow" in a watery flashing loudness of swept glass; shrapnel "rattling like hail through the broken trees of the square...
...crowded Nazi troop transport. Front-Line Girl is the story of Sonia Straw, one of the first three women to receive the George Medal for civilian gallantry. "Although she had seen nothing more bloody than a cut finger in her 19 years" Sonia treated bomb victims for everything from shrapnel wounds to shell shock. Most blood-tingling are the restrained accounts of fights and bombings by British airmen whose anonymity the R. A. F. guards unless they are killed. Spirit of the British fliers is summed up by one who said: "When you're going into it you think...