Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aiming, Jim Crowe raised his head feebly, identified himself by twirling his famed red mustache. Finally dragged back to a shell hole in the sand near the water, Jim Crowe was treated by a Navy-hospital corpsman. There a Jap mortar shell killed the kneeling corpsman; another fragment wounded a doctor who took the corpsman's place...
...that time mortar and artillery shells were dropping on the slender beachhead every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
...Death by Fragment. In the next room McCarthy and Dowling were trying to help Terry. There was nothing anyone could do for Ace Bush. He had been instantly killed by a fragment. His body was virtually un marked, his face calm and serene. It was obvious that he had not known even a momentary flash of panic or pain...
During the 76 hours of violent battle at Tarawa last November the Marines' beachhead commander, 39-year-old Colonel David M. Shoup, of Battle Ground, Indiana, carefully concealed a painful fact: as he waded ashore his leg had been pierced by a shell fragment. For that wound, indestructible, broad-beamed Colonel Shoup received his second Purple Heart (he had been wounded before by a bomb at New Georgia...
...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification...