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...Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's Green Mountain last June. Marshal Tito was wounded that day, too, and the Germans almost surrounded and annihilated four of his best divisions. Vladimir saw Olga fall and ran to pull her into a ditch, out of reach of the Stukas...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...
...unless President Roosevelt could pull off a political miracle, it now seemed certain that Congress will definitely not vote the high taxes which the Administration demands. The best that the Administration can hope for on subsidies, due to expire Dec. 31, is a 60-day postponement of the battle, followed by a compromise which would retain some subsidies, kill others off cold...
...could the enemy cut down on manpower but on first-class manpower. German prisoners taken in the Monte Samucre sector were not top material for Panzer Grenadiers. They did not have to be. Cracked a U.S. officer: "All they had to do was sit in those damn pillboxes and pull a trigger...
...grenade is different from ours. To arm it, they pull a pin but then they have to strike the grenade on something solid a couple of times to set off the fuse. They usually knock it on their helmets or rifle butts. They got so close to us at times, we could hear them pull the pin, bang the damn things on their helmets 'klunk-klunk'; and then 'WHAM...