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...that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...
...small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic Reporter Gene McLain...
Rivers was dead. Schmid and Diamond lay there motionless. Once a lieutenant braved the bullet barrage to give them a hypodermic; once a hospital corpsman brought water. In the full light of morning, they were helped away...
...above the Mediterranean, four German fighters had attacked General Doolittle's Flying Fortress. Unwilling to risk Doolittle & staff in combat if it could be avoided, Pilot Lieut. John C. Summers dived toward the sea. At 50 feet the Fortress leveled off and shot for the land. Fifty-caliber bullets from the top turret sent one of the German fighters limping away. Two others attacked. The Fortress copilot sagged to the floor with a bullet in his shoulder. Jimmy Doolittle yanked his soft khaki cap down on his balding head, climbed into the copilot's seat. The gunners fought...
...Wars; New Wounds. Russian statistics show how mechanization of war has changed the military surgeon's problems. Says the Red Army's Chief Surgeon Nikolai N. Burdenko: "The percentage of bullet wounds is comparatively small; most casualties are now due to bombing, mortar fire and grenades." In World War I, 50% of wounds were caused by shrapnel (or shell fragments); today 95% belong to this category (counting each wound separately-one man often receives several wounds at the same time). Next to wounds of the arms and legs, the largest group of major wounds involves the skull...