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...caught a bomb burst in the back. He was many months in hospital, was then honorably discharged. Private Davidowicz had broken in action, had been dishonorably discharged for leaving his post in the face of enemy fire. He had his own excuse for that: suffering from concussion, and bullet and stab wounds, he had abandoned his gun to go after a wounded...
...acquaintances, who had developed a studied indifference to his talk of crusades, "expo-ZAYS" and threats, the wonder was that anyone had wasted a bullet on Kasherman. He was a man of thin face and slickly pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer, who once did a two-year penitentiary stretch for a $25 shakedown of a whoremistress. His Public Press was a newspaper only by the utmost professional courtesy: it came out intermittently, whenever Kasherman could find someone to smear and someone to pay him for it; it was full of black-inked diatribes...
Paris Was Different. Bathed, shaved, in clean uniforms, the returning soldiers had assembled in Paris. Paris, its liquor, its shows, its bullet-scarred buildings could be believed. But this, at last, was home. "Jesus," they repeated. "The dream's come true...
...second trip, they found Sir Eric. He was dead, "crouched as though he had been watching someone." A .30-caliber bullet from a U.S. Army carbine had pierced his left cheek, entered his body. Fifty yards away British police and U.S. Army MPs found ten empty cartridges, two wads of chewing gum. The rest was easy: the investigation moved to a U.S. Army airdrome near...
...When the Canadian was brought in, his artery was severed by a bullet and his leg and foot were cold and white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...