Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...
...minds inside the bullet heads of the Wehrmacht officers hit the receptive mind of the U.S. captain with the impact of a robomb. German officers,* he found, were less flexible than U.S. military men. But they lived, breathed and dreamed war. They understood war as politics and peace as politics...
...Russians. "Will the Soviet Command receive emissaries to discuss negotiations?" he asked. Red Army Major Belousov agreed and walked with the Germans toward their lines, trailed by a Russian soldier with a field telephone. Suddenly a shot cracked out. Belousov dropped with a Nazi sniper's bullet through his head...
...parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...
Fresh from a Philippine army hospital, Captain "Strench" Moran, husky 6th Division rifle-company commander, drew 800 pesos back pay, stuffed the notes in a shirt pocket, and trudged off to the battle line east of Manila. There the 800 pesos proved just enough to buy his life. A bullet grazed one arm, bored into his bankroll, nestled against the skin of his chest...