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...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...
...decided that the standard .30-cal. slug was the smallest size with enough stopping power. They got to work on a light-weight cartridge (the T-65) that was half an inch shorter than the standard Garand cartridge and weighed about 16% less, without sacrificing any weight in the bullet itself. The light rifle* that they built around the stubby new shell fires as heavy a slug with the same muzzle velocity (about 2,800 ft. per second) as the Garand, but weighs 1¾ Ibs. less...
...position had been seriously depleted by casualties . . . decided on his own initiative to drive the enemy off." Hurling grenades like a madman in a crockery shop, Speakman led his six men in charge after charge-ten in all-leaving "an ever mounting pile of enemy dead." A bullet caught him in the leg, and an officer ordered him to the rear. "What," roared Speakman, "and leave all my lovely grenades...
...Loutitt, close by their radio, kept the long vigil that mothers & fathers were keeping everywhere. "We just sat there and listened," said Mrs. Loutitt. "We hoped and we prayed, because all we knew was that Charles was missing and the truck he had been driving was found full of bullet holes. Then we heard his name...
...waited for his wife to return from, a drive with another man. After the big Cadillac convertible pulled to a stop, the attendant heard the woman pleading and the man's startled voice: "Don't be silly, Walter. Don't!" Then there were two shots. One bullet from the husband's pistol smashed into the Cadillac's tail fin. The other struck the suspected rival in the groin...