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...patrols, artillery to be used only for counterbattery fire, the infantry to fight only to repel an attack. When he had finished, a sergeant asked: "What does this mean, lieutenant?" Answered the officer: "It means just what it says. And it means that from now on every round of ammo has got to be accounted...
...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
Rolling with the Punch. The Americans were spending plenty of ammunition. Some busy gun crews, stripped to the waist in the warm, weather, hardly had time for a drink of water. Their howitzers and Long Tom rifles hurled hundreds of thousands of shells. Mortar ammo was in such plentiful supply that one crew lobbed 100 shells at a single Chinese silhouetted on a ridge line...
...feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack for two days, then slipped away under...
...firing at 20 yards. "Some we nailed," said a corporal, "and they'd take two or three others down with them, a drop of 75 feet. But they kept coming. If our machine-gunners hadn't cut them off from below, we might have run out of ammo. It looked like curtains...