wounded

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Social media videos show crowds of people rushing to the scene to assist the wounded.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

He was mortally wounded in Normandy, but his death in a British hospital meant he had not been formally commemorated.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Corinna said she knew her father had been wounded fighting in France and Russia with the German army, but she said he had never mentioned having Nazi sympathies.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

At last the German attack planes flew away again, leaving the women of the 46th to repair the damage and help their friends who had been wounded.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein