Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delicate one. Looks like he got a hand grenade between his legs but I think we can save one testicle." A marine was set down with a shattered kneecap. "Sure, he'll be as good as new," said the doctor, when someone asked if the marine would walk normally. Then came a man who was shot through the thigh, another who had at least five wounds around his chest, neck and right arm, another with a chest wound to whom the doctor said, "What's the matter with you, son?" The boy told him and said...
...Walk." Through this bloody action, Hays kept on recording conversations with Marines: talk, constant nervous laughter and incoherence. "Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you're scared, run," says a Flatbush, Brooklyn, boy. "Are you scared?" asks Hays. "Well, I couldn't sleep." Says one Texas Marine, wounded by fire from undisclosed Japanese pillboxes on a knoll: "You just got to walk till you find them...
...total casualties so far consist of 20% dead (i.e., before they can be given medical attention) and 80% wounded. Of the wounded, about half are able to walk. But the other half are hurt worse than Americans have ever been hurt and lived. Nobody in the tremendous U.S. medical service in Normandy underestimates the cost of the invasion...
...After Ribbentrop's departure I was able to observe the effect of his remarks, suitably edited and sweetened, as they filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...
Husky, precise, wisecracking "Ollie" Burke was born on a ranch in Colorado, but his heart was in the Navy from the time he was able to walk. At Annapolis he had no time for athletics or midshipmen's monkey-business. As an officer he became one of the Navy's best at ordnance and gunnery...