Word: shrapnel
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...boys, Trang Cuong Viet, 10, and Nguyen Phat Luom, 13, were injured by shrapnel and bombs in the South Vietnamese provinces. They were flown to Hanscom Field in Bedford by the United States Air Force. They will undergo reconstructive plastic surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline where doctors have offered their services without charge...
Chopper Armor. As protection against shrapnel, which inflicts 80% of all wartime wounds, U.S. troops now wear 10-lb. nylon felt vests. Davis claims that his 8-lb., all-nylon version wards off not only shrapnel, but also direct hits from small arms up to .38 caliber...
Several rockets crashed into the barracks area, destroying three buildings. "You could hear the shrapnel hitting the roof," said an airman. "Then one landed on the barracks next to us like 60,000 garbage cans hitting the floor." When the sun rose, aircraft and barracks were still smoldering. Two big craters pocked the west runway, and the east runway was scattered with debris from wrecked aircraft. In all, eleven planes-Phantoms, Crusaders and C-130 transports-were destroyed and 31 damaged. Besides the dead, 173 people were wounded...
...Dartmouth, the particular "drinking uni" (for uniform) at the moment is the "blow-lunch look" (so called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying Ace helmet, complete with ear flaps and shrapnel holes. At Harvard, the grapevine passes the word around within hours whenever Secondhand Deal er Max Keezer or "Morgie's" (Goodwill Industry's Morgan Memorial) gets in any old taxi-driver hats or brownand-white shoes, and some Harvards are even beginning to talk antique: "Those teeny-boppers...
...grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come upon a buried land mine left by the Viet Cong. Badly maimed by shrapnel, Fall sank to the ground, was dead within two minutes. The photographer died with...