Word: antipersonnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathtaking invasion fleet of some 5,000 ships stretching from the Normandy coast back to the embarkation ports of England. There is the gore and gallantry of the assault troops slashing their way onto Omaha and Utah beaches through the underbrush of mines, barbed wire, antitank and antipersonnel devices, while being Jashed by bullets, mortar and artillery fire from the German Atlantic Wall. As one British marine classically understated it when his outfit was dumped 50 yards offshore and forced to swim through a hail of machine-gun fire: "Perhaps we're intruding. This seems to be a private...
...dropped antipersonnel grenades on the city of Zacapa, and the government began evacuating civilians. A Thunderbolt worked over a troop train near by and stopped it. Soldiers leaped from the cars and melted into the countryside; some of them reportedly went over to the rebels...