Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shrapnel hits our building and we duck for cover while great clouds of black smoke and red dust rise like thunderheads and slowly thin away...
From the Myitkyina station, recognizable only by untidy heaps of shrapnel-torn cars and scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...
...those who think this war is over with the capitulation of Germany remember this: the day they are parading and enjoying their celebration there will be men out here dying from bullets, shrapnel and disease for them; men living horrible existences in filthy, swampy, disease-infested jungles, for them. Don't get me wrong-we will be just as happy and just as proud of our brothers when they have won the great Battle of Europe. We know what sacrifices have been made and will be made to bring about this victory. But in God's name...
...Peleliu's sandy beaches we wondered if another Tarawa was developing," Martin cabled. "The Japs knew we were coming and threw everything in the book at us in a desperate effort to stave off annihilation. Two Jap shells made near misses on our amphtrack, pelted its sides with shrapnel. When we reached the beach another mortar a few yards distant spouted bloodily against the smoky island background, killed one Marine, wounded two others. We had to dig for cover in a ditch because our front lines were only 25 yards inland...
...shrapnel-scarred 2 rue des Italiens, United Pressmen Henry T. Gorrell, Richard D. McMillan and Ernie Pyle found the Germans had stolen the mahogany desks. But a U.P. employe had hidden the typewriters in his home...