Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leathernecks say they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...
...Most feared weapons were bomb fragments (36%), trench mortars (22%), artillery shells...
...Germans fought well. Ordered to hold the city and its suburbs at any cost, they sprinkled the fields with pillboxes, fortified every house, battled with bayonets, knives, trench shovels. A blinding dust storm raged over the city. Sweating and cursing, the men fought and died by the thousands in hand combat, in shattered buildings, in tanks and self-propelled guns set afire by "Molotov cocktails...
Last week two doctors claimed that they have developed speedy remedies for trench mouth...
...American.. Journal of Surgery, Dr. S. L. Goldberg urges chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of plants, for trench mouth. Of 122 cases with severe gum infection, 98 were cured (usually in three or four days) and 24 were improved by using chlorophyll sprays twice a day plus frequent eye-dropper injections of chlorophyll between the teeth...