Word: ambusher
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Smack into Ambush. After the first evacuation of Chonan, U.S. commanders discovered that the Communists had failed to follow and that some 15 miles of unoccupied road lay behind. Angry and ruffled, they turned one platoon around and sent it north. The platoon-led by jeeps instead of tanks-ran smack into an enemy ambush...
...ends, the rifle is lost & found by half a dozen other characters, giving Director Anthony Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes in a burning house; a bank holdup and, finally, an exciting rifle duel on the side of a craggy cliff...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
...jeeps and machine guns. This month, it spread a rumor that a large sum of money was being kept in the forester's office in a village deep in the heart of the Gir Forest. When Visa and his band dashed into the village, they were caught in ambush, and Visa and three henchmen were killed. In triumph the police laid out the bodies before the unhappy villagers, and took them to the bank of the Hiran River. Next day, near the temple where Visa had made his vow, he and his bandits were burned to ashes...
Police Trap? Two days after Negreiros' death the Aprista underground distributed mimeographed sheets giving their own version of the story.* Negreiros, they said, had been lured to his death by a traitor. According to the Apristas, as soon as the man had identified Negreiros, the police came from ambush with guns blazing, and cut him down with 28 bullets...