General Hafiz ordered his soldiers to build a mud brick wall in front of the entrance to protect the ammunition from bomb shrapnel.

"The gut is from bomb shrapnel," he said.

Not 24 hours later, though, American authorities informed Wong that an investigation indicated that the two civilians had been killed by bomb shrapnel.

He lost a brother and two cousins in the war, he said; he was wounded when bomb shrapnel took a chunk from his scalp.

Marks of the damage can still be seen in the base of the statue, and the anvil has a hole caused by a bomb shrapnel.

About a dozen spectators were also hit by bomb shrapnel.

He survived two torpedo attacks on his ships, but after four years of service, sustained fatal wounds in Southsea from flying bomb shrapnel.

A foot-long piece of bomb shrapnel that landed in Ettenberg is affixed to the wall under the painting.

The explosion from that hit injured Kiefer, with 65 wounds from bomb shrapnel and a broken arm.

A sixth was struck in the face by bomb shrapnel.