Word: burping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to the world. Five civilian newsreel and newspaper photographers slipped past the Communist roadblocks on the ground that they were "accredited to the U.S. Army," reported some details of the Communists' highhanded behavior in the Kaesong area. Chinese troops lined the roads, bristling not only with burp guns but also with captured U.S. carbines and British Sten guns...
...figures do not include carrier-based Navy and Marine planes). Allied airmen have lately been suffering heavily from enemy flak, some of which is radar-controlled and skillfully handled. Americans strafing at low levels have been hit and sometimes forced down by a variety of missiles, including rifle and burp-gun bullets and grenades. In one low-altitude flight last week, an F80 pilot, returning to base, found the explanation for a jar he had felt on his strafing run: a large stone, thrown at him from the ground, had smashed into the leading edge of his left wing...
...Check was making a nuisance of himself again. Every night he came wheezing and clanking down from his North Korean hideout and bombed U.N. positions with 44-lb. mortar shells, apparently chucked over the side. For good measure, his rear-seat man did a bit of strafing with a burp gun. For two successive nights and twice each night, Bed Check attacked a U.S. airbase at Seoul. No one chuckled more heartily at the Air Force's embarrassment than U.S. foot-sloggers. They pointed gleefully to hurriedly dug foxholes around Air Force installations, howled when one flustered young...
...armored forces overran the Communists' "iron triangle" without much trouble, capturing large enemy stores of ammunition, fuel, rifles, burp guns, mines, grenades, TNT, and medical supplies. Two U.N. columns of more than 100 tanks closed in on Pyonggang* at the triangle's northern point, and found it empty. But when enemy resistance stiffened to the north and east, the allies pulled back out of the town. The U.N. offensive stalled...
...Sergeant John A. Pittman, 22, Company C, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl...