When his company was ordered to take a hill during the Korean War's Operation Ripper, Sfc. Nelson Brittin led the way.

a short distance from the scene, in which a large amount of powder was stored, would be fired by the rest or the exploding shells, but up to our [???]. The [???] of these who had relatives and ...

The big guns rattled the fliers; they were missing their targets. Each exploding shell launched about 1,500 metal fragments. Some would pass right through the plane, or explode inside, and some ...

Most of it never reached its destination. At that hour, a shuddering blast rocked the vessel, hurling exploding shells, steel deck plates and human fragments aloft in a pillar of fire. A second ...

A spate of unexplained blazes and explosions at oil and gas pipelines in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta is threatening the country’s oil production and has spiralled into a national political dispute.

His photo shows glowing debris flickering in the distance next to a shell-shaped white cloud ... a launch failed eight minutes into flight, exploding over the Bahamas and scattering debris ...

At first doctors thought it was a physical condition, concussion caused by exploding shells. Treatment was often brutal; some doctors used solitary confinement and electric shock treatment to try ...