Word: shrapnel
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...Army has a better combat record in World War II than the field artillery. It was good in World War I -when more than half all casualties (70% of American) were from artillery fire. In World War II it uses new, time-fire shells far more accurate than shrapnel and six times as destructive against personnel as regular shells which explode on the ground. It masses fire at speeds inconceivable 25 years ago. In seconds it can destroy targets that once took minutes, sometimes hours...
Limited. In Camp Stewart, Ga., Private Andrew J. Capariso's commanding officer judged him "limited service material." The C.O. then learned that Capariso had survived 15 months' internment in North Africa, English air raids, shrapnel wounds at Dakar, three torpedoings, 16 days on the Atlantic in an open boat, three days on the Atlantic on a raft with a dead...
...battalion commander, who had personally led the B Company attack, was a rugged and capable lieutenant colonel. He had lost a front tooth from a piece of .88 shrapnel at El Guettar. Now he decided it was better to die fighting. With two of his platoons he marched up the hill through the fire on that ridge and crossed over the ridge. Those two platoons and the colonel were not heard from again...
...Copilot Victor Bartholomei was the squadron's only casualty. He lost an eye to German shrapnel over Bizerte. (Major John Toomey, one of three successive squadron commanders, was shot down near Naples and probably captured, but that was after he left the 513th...
...Just as we started to go overside a shell hit the stacks over our head. Two of my friends were killed and I was wounded. That shrapnel is so hot when it hits you-I don't know what it does to you but you don't feel it. I think I was stunned by the shrapnel, though. I know I dove from the boat about 20 ft. to the water. When I hit the water-it was warm, about 78, I would say-my head cleared. I swam along for a short while when I came...