Word: shrapnel
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World War I: As a temporary infantry captain in France, was wounded by shrapnel. Later took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives while serving in the supply section of the First Army's general staff. After the war, attended the Army's best schools, served as an instructor of the Indiana National Guard, and then at the Army War College. Caught Marshall's eye with his efficient handling in 1939 practice amphibious landings on the West Coast...
Army Chaplain Rudolf Albert Renfer had just finished a Sunday battlefield sermon somewhere in Germany when shrapnel from enemy artillery put him out of World War II. Two years ago, Presbyterian Renfer became professor of church history and missions at nondenominational, fundamentalist Dallas Theological Seminary. But when the Korean war broke out, he began worrying about the chaplaincy again -a branch of the ministry that looked as though it would be around for a long time...
...nation's flowers emerged from caves and broken buildings. Beside the budding, shrapnel-scarred elms along the streets, they watched. Now & then a youngster clapped or smiled, but mostly they stood with wooden faces, like tired old people who have found life very hard and who take little joy in parades...
...enemy had thoroughly prepared Red Beach for defense. There were fine, newly dug trenches and well-placed pillboxes. But all were unoccupied. We crossed a road strewn with hunks of shrapnel and reached the side of a five-story building once occupied by the Jinsen Milling Co. It was riddled with gunfire, a fire roared in the top two stories and black smoke billowed from its roof. Further on, in a shattered, deserted street, we saw a large cartoon snowing a powerfully muscled arm holding a spindly little guy labeled "USA" while another strong arm hit him over the head...
...commando officer and renowned for his flamboyant courage under fire. All went well for two hours, while they prowled around in the Communist lines. Then, as they started back, the Reds opened fire and three mortar shells exploded among them. Both Emery and Churchill were hit by shrapnel; the G.I. between them was so badly wounded that he was abandoned. The patrol waded and crawled back to the U.N. lines...