Word: tommyguns
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...mission had an unofficial function which U.S. military authorities did not find amusing: espionage in the U.S. zone. U.S. authorities finally found the excuse they had been seeking to send the Soviet mission packing. Last month, a trigger-happy, tommygun-toting Russian soldier had killed a U.S. corporal who was on night patrol in Vienna's international zone. When the Russians refused to cooperate with the U.S. in an investigation of the case, U.S. High Commissioner Walter J. Donnelly retaliated by giving the mission until June 8 to return to the Soviet zone...
...frame house overflowed with packages; they came from Miami, from Seattle, from all over: a xylophone, a miniature church with chimes, a blue music box, a toy army camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...
...FORCE INTACT STILL FIGHTING BADLY NEEDS BOOTS MONEY QUININE TOMMYGUN AMMUNITION." Soon the needs were flown in and the Sparrows went to work. They ambushed four Japanese officers and 50 men. They dynamited bridges and burned camps. They sniped and rushed and potshot until by last week they claimed 30 Jap officers and 500 men. They had lost exactly three Sparrows...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...target was possibly a fighter from Texas who was wearing a 10-gallon hat and looked like an important person. An American soldier coolly drew the firing pins from two grenades and tossed them accurately into the Japanese foxhole and then walked over and fired several rounds of his tommygun to make sure...