Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, finally landed on Leyte with the 7th Division. On Dec. 30, when a man was needed to cross a valley under fire and scout Japanese positions, Hachiya volunteered. He had worked out ahead of his protecting patrol, when he suddenly staggered with a sniper's bullet in his belly. He emptied his rifle at the enemy, and crawled back to the U. S. lines, gave his scout's report. Soon after, Private Hachiya died...
...blithely disdainful of personal precautions. That morning a ton of German dynamite and Italian TNT had been discovered in a sewer under the Hotel Grande Bretagne, home of high-ranking British officers and Greek Cabinet Ministers. Even as Churchill arrived at the conference a distant sniper pinged in his direction. Doorways bristled with guards, tanks watched every intersection. Overhead Spitfires patrolled...
Time Out for Fighting. At the same rapid pace other fields began to appear on the rough, forbidding terrain of Saipan. Often the engineers, working within earshot of the Japs, had to take time out to fight. One day Lieut. Henry McCoy killed a sniper by running him down in a jeep...
...French, the liberation of Strasbourg was next in importance to the freeing of Paris. Last week Paris celebrated; the sniper-infested ancient capital of Alsace could not. The Consultative Assembly sang and cheered. In the Place de la Concorde mounds of flowers banked the massive grey stone statue dedicated to Strasbourg. Through the day Parisians walked through the great square, to doff their hats at the statue. At night, midinettes celebrating the spinsters' feast, St. Catherine's Day, kissed many a G.I. who had never been near Strasbourg...
...newcomer gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...