Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About three weeks after Popko had moved to the front, the big attack came -part of the enemy's hard-driving try to take Taegu. Popko's squad was holding the left side of Hill 303.* The enemy came up in three banzai-screaming waves. "Once I was going to get out of the hole and throw my rifle away and go over the hill. You can't explain how it is. You just think you can't stand it any more. But the guy in the next hole to me started talking sense into...
...back for Inchon to file his story. With him in a jeep were John Davies of the Newark News and Lachie McDonald of the London Daily Mail. As Bell later reported, "We were all quite happy to have survived the rather horrid night and three hours of North Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys' we had traveled with the past few weeks." Then the jeep entered a thick cloud of dust...
...Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...