Word: shrapnel
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...also visited a Soviet hospital, the Central Institute of Experimental Medicine, watched Brain Surgeon Grastchenkov take shrapnel out of a soldier's brain...
That night I met a young lieutenant of the Dutch Navy in a downtown hotel. He limped badly from a piece of shrapnel in his thigh, a souvenir of the Battle of the Java Sea. The doctor had forbidden him to leave the ship, but he hadn't been ashore for nine months. After a couple of highballs he had to leave because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only...
...horribly cast as a well-bred English girl, and who meets the Rabbit Man n --how did you guess it--a blackout. In addition there are numerous other stock characters, all of them nobly and courageously going about their jobs amid the bursting of bombs and the falling the shrapnel...
...savings had been spread, widely and with studied recklessness, on the table: 200 planes over Pearl Harbor, scores of transports off Malaya, 200,000 men thrown at Luzon, oil burned up in submarine raids off California, shells pumped onto Guam, Wake and Midway, artillery squandered at Hong Kong, shrapnel consumed in a new Chinese offensive, cruisers risked in an attack on Sarawak, precious bombs dropped on Sumatra and Burma-a total bet of nearly all Japan's power. At best Japan stood to lose far more than she could replace soon; at worst, everything...
...fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...