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They opened up with a hail of machine-gun fire, shooting from cellars, from shell holes, from behind any pile of stone or debris. There was no way to discourage them except the classical infantry way: a personal bullet, a private grenade, an individual bayonet thrust...
This is not the first time a patient has lived after having a foreign body in his heart. In World War I, surgeons succeeded in removing several bullets from soldiers' hearts. But their most famous case was a British officer who underwent a long operation to extract a bullet from his heart. Finally the surgeon gave up. The officer was still alive at last report. The tip of the bullet had worked its way into one of his heart chambers, swung like a clapper in a small bell with every heartbeat...
Last week on a downtown Washington street at midday, Lawyer Miller stepped up to the black sedan, leaned across his wife's mink coat, and fired one .38 bullet into Dr. Lind's forehead, another into his chest. He explained: "I just went over to the car to tell my wife to get out. . . . He pulled a gun on me. . . . What could I do but shoot...
...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
Death Blow. "The skipper said he was going to set her down on the sea, and for me to open an escape hatch. The Jap came in again. His guns blazed. A bullet hit the skipper in the chest but he still kept the plane under control. Somehow, with one foot shot away, part of his face blown in, his hands a mass of bloody flesh and a hole straight through his chest, he did set the 'Golden Gator' down on the water. ... I picked myself up and reached for the skipper. But he was dead...