Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead of side by side as in most other helicopters. The Cobras saw combat for the first time last week when two of them blasted land ing zones with machine guns and rockets in support of a South Vietnamese assault, then destroyed four enemy bunkers and sank 14 guerrilla sampans in another operation. "She's the kind of thing you can fall in love with," said one pilot. "She's lean and mean...
...patrol discovered a tunnel so recently deserted that a candle was still flickering inside. From a maze of interlocking tunnels and chambers, the troops toted out a huge cache of ammunition and at least 675 weapons, including Chinese-made recoilless rifles and brand-new Soviet AK-47 assault rifles. U.S. intelligence experts believe that the cache was a resupply depot for the 274th North Vietnamese Regiment, which has been operating in the area...
Puff to the Rescue. Just below the DMZ, the U.S. Marines at Con Thien came under heavy attack again. First, the shells began falling on the camp. Then, under cover of a heavy 400-shell barrage, 900 North Vietnamese regulars made a pre-dawn assault on Con Thien in an attempt to overrun the embattled Marines. Lobbing smoke and tear-gas grenades, the North Vietnamese reached the southwest perimeter of the base before they were pinned down by withering counterfire from the Marines. To the Marines' assistance came Puff-the-Magic-Dragon gunships, their fast-firing miniguns raking...
...Herschel doesn't ring in the ear with quite the glory of an Everest, but the direction is up, and that's good enough for New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, 48. Hillary is leading a team of seven New Zealanders and an Aussie in an assault on the unclimbed 11,700-ft. peak, will then do a bit of "adventuring" in his first trip to the Antarctic since his journey to the South Pole in 1958. "I will be fit enough to chug about," said Everest's conqueror, "but I certainly...
...takes from the corpse a map indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon." The lumpish lawman not only buys the story, but comes along on the gold rush. Ultimately, the thief heads for Mexico with the loot, cheating every-one-the sheriff, the girl, the U.S. Cavalry and the viewer...