Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured out of their bombproof shelters into the vicinity of military objectives and had been injured by their own shells and shrapnel falling on them; signed off with his usual "This is E. D. Ward IN Berlin...
Engaged (Really). New Zealander Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, Great Britain's first World War II Ace (five Nazi kills, a possible sixth), convalescing from 20 shrapnel wounds; and his best girl Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, who doesn't believe in getting married until the war is over (TIME, April 15); after a 90-mile dash from Peterborough, where she is playing in The Importance of Being Earnest, to Birmingham to buy an engagement ring...
...Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, was pronounced R. A. F.'s undisputed Ace No. 1 (see opposite page), officially credited with five Nazi kills (and a possible sixth) for which he received the D. F. C. last fortnight. His arrival in England on leave, to recuperate from 20 shrapnel wounds in left leg and hand, was made the occasion for a burst of unwonted official publicity. The fact that Officer Kain was born in New Zealand, where "Cobber" means "Pal," is a big help to recruiting officers...
...Last wide military use of shrapnel against troops was not in the Boer War, 1899-1902, as many Canadian soldiers could testify who came under extensive and persistent shrapnel shelling at Ypres, 1915, 1916, 1917; on the Somme, 1916; at Vimy and in front of Lens, 1916, 1917; before Arras 1917, 1918; before Amiens, 1918; at Valenciennes and Mons...
...TIME should have known better. In World War I, as now, the rule is: against matériel, high-explosive shells; against personnel, shrapnel...