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...down by a far superior, better-armed force than they anticipated, army troops called for reinforcements of tanks and artillery. After six hours, the machine guns fell silent and army sharpshooters closed in, backed up by troops with bayonets. When army troops finally stormed the basement, they found the bullet-riddled bodies of Bhindranwale and his two top lieutenants...
Manhattan, 1933. A pretty, blond woman walks alone into her darkened apartment. With a thrill of apprehension, Eve (Darlanne Fluegel) walks toward her big bed and slowly pulls down the top sheet. There, outlined in bullet holes, is the silhouette of her gangster lover, Noodles Aaronson. On the table beside her, Noodles' framed photograph is abruptly smashed by a burly hand. "Where is he?" demands the intruder. Eve doesn't know, but it doesn't matter: two bullets from a muted revolver send her reeling back, dead, to fill her lover's silhouette. This...
...down five or six times to retrieve his equipment for saying Mass. Private John Steele had a different kind of religious problem: his parachute caught on the steeple of the church in Ste.-Mère-Eglise, so he played dead while German patrols prowled the streets below. A stray bullet hit him in the foot. He watched another ammunition-laden paratrooper land on a burning house and explode. Others were shot while hanging in trees. After two hours, a German finally spotted Steele, cut him down and took him prisoner. American forces later rescued him when they occupied the town...
Lieut. Edward Tidrick was hit in the throat when he jumped into the water. Another bullet hit him as he lay on the beach. He gasped out a last command: "Advance with the wire cutters!" There were no wire cutters; they had been lost in the blood-streaked water...
...Litwinsky, 33 years old, of 31 Winter't Cambridge, was shot in the back last Thursday night while ticketing cars along Shepard St. two blocks from the Quad. He was rested unconscious to Cambridge City Hospital by two passersby, and after an operation early Friday morning that removed a bullet that had lodged near his hart, his condition is stable...