Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth night was the worst. The Reds sent nine tanks and a half-dozen assault guns at the company's front; they started coming shortly after dark and kept right on trying until...
...foxhole and open flat trajectory fire with their 85-mm. guns; a good many of the shells went screaming down the road, hit the first small elevation in their path and bounced into a nearby hillside, like bowling balls. Michaelis' men, who did not budge under the assault, nicknamed the road, "the bowling alley...
...Dead. Michaelis (rhymes with quick hail us) had been in tight spots before. He took part in the Normandy assault, won a battlefield promotion to full colonel. During the airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944, he jumped at the head of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, was wounded twice in three days. During the Battle of the Bulge, he was chief of staff of the 101st...
...over the embattled 27th Regiment if he had any job for them. He certainly did. The spotter guided the B-26s-with only enough gas in their tanks to stay in the air 20 minutes-to General Kim's 8th Regiment, just as it prepared for a night assault. Down thundered 20 tons of bombs. Later reconnaissance showed that the slaughter among the Reds had been tremendous. Mike Michaelis' artillery, with a nice assist from the B-26s, had broken Kim's drive...
...Picture. This story of how brilliant young Colonel Michaelis beat off General Kim's assault is what the working soldier on the hills, behind the road blocks and in the ditches calls the "big picture...