Word: shrapnel
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While helping man a machine gun on Guadalcanal in January 1943, he got his first wound: two slivers of Japanese shrapnel ripped into his back and lodged in his left lung. Considering that a "scratch," he stayed up front with his platoon; but malaria finally laid him low. In the spring of 1945 he was back in action. He was wounded in the arm and leg by grenade fragments, in the face and in the hip by shrapnel, then in the face again by a sniper's bullet...
Kennedy's next" assignment was Newport, R.I., as instructor to a group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...
Reunion. In Korea, when Pfc. Richard Barcelo Jr. of Tucson, Ariz, was wounded by shrapnel on Triangle Hill, he was recognized by another soldier from Tucson, who carried him to a field hospital where he was treated by a doctor from Tucson...
...handful of Chinese popped out of the trench, killed four marines in their holes with grenades, broke through the line to Captain Connolly's CP, where the shrapnel-torn flag of St. Michael was still flying. Connolly radioed his men to move in from each side to seal the breach, then helped to pick off the attackers himself. Shortly he was radioing back to battalion: "Lines breached, now consolidated...
...seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried in him 17 pieces of shrapnel from World...