Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, a U.S. Marine assault force prepared to storm No Name Ridge. For 5 minutes, the height was pounded by U.S. artillery. Then for a quarter of an hour Marine Corsair fighter planes raked it with bombs, rockets and machine guns. After this there was another 10-minute artillery barrage; then the Corsairs came back over for final strafing runs...
Hell burst around the leathernecks as they moved up the barren face of the ridge. Everywhere along the assault line, men dropped. To continue looked impossible. But, all glory forever to the bravest men I ever saw, the line did not break. The casualties were unthinkable, but the assault force never turned back. It moved, fell down, got up and moved again...
...more than an hour the assault force stumbled and struggled forward against a solid wall of fire. A Red mortar was knocked out by artillery, but the machine guns and automatic weapons continued without letup. As the marines neared the crest, their line ripped apart; the North Koreans rose from their positions and came forward throwing grenades. The Reds were cut down but not before their grenades had done terrible work among the marines...
...Marines have landed in Korea five times in the last 80 years to protect U.S. interests, but only once before did they have to fight. In June, 1871, as a result of Korean attacks on U.S. ships and sailors, a U.S. assault force including 105 marines stormed several forts on the Han River. Marine casualties: one dead, one wounded...
...sent to the penitentiary in Texas for murder in 1918. Adding verses as they came to him, Lead Belly made Irene a prison favorite. Five years after he got out of the Texas jail on a pardon, he bounced into Louisiana's state prison farm for assault with intent to kill, and sweet Irene went right along with...