Word: shrapnel
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...freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries...
...shells and to a discussion of their respective values under different conditions. By tables and diagrams he pointed out the penetrating power of high explosive shells of the several calibres, explaining its variation according to the weight of the projectile and its angle of incidence. The use of shrapnel was also discussed with reference to its effectiveness and potentiality. Captain Dupont treated his subject from the point of view of the infantry officer, pointing out the aid which foot troops could expect from their supporting artillery, with which they must co-operate closely at all times...
...great, tragic conflict shakes the hearts of millions of American citizens of German birth or descent. For nearly three years our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have held at bay a world of enemies. The terrible hardships of trench warfare, aided by enemy bullets and shrapnel, thinned their ranks--spread over a front of thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach us and the hundreds that...
...cases were allotted to us--an average of over 3 cases a day. In all 441 cases were at one time or another under our observation and care. Of the 383 cases on which we have full records 318 received actual wounds by missiles--as follows: Rifle ball, 128 Shrapnel ball, 31 Shell fragment, 133 Shell fragment and rifle ball, 5 Shell fragment and shrapnel, 1 Doubtful, 5 Bomb fragments, 9 Hand-grenade, 3 Barbed wire, 1 Mine explosion, 1 Revolver ball, 1 Total...
John F. Bass '91, staff correspondent of the Chicago Daily News with the Russian army at Warsaw, was wounded in the face, early this month, by an explosion of German shrapnel, while returning from the trenches. Information has been cabled that his injuries are not serious...