Word: burping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From nearby hills, the Chinese opened up with rifles, burp guns and mortars. Aided by air strikes and artillery from the rear, the tanks lashed the ridges with their machine guns and 90-mm. cannon. Meanwhile the crews were trying to get out the mired tanks. One came free with a loud, sighing whoosh, and a retriever hauled the mine-damaged tank to the rear...
...that turned out to be the 19th's good luck. The Chinese charge faltered. Then an enemy burp gun chattered. Mitchell Red Cloud was knocked flat, badly wounded. He pulled himself weakly erect, got one arm around a tree, clung there and went on firing. Then he fell again-dead. But Red Cloud's last stand had given the 19th the time it needed; the company fought its way to safety with its wounded...
...their kids strapped papoose style to their backs, and every older kid for miles around who had heard about the big free boat ride. As the LST settled slowly into the mud under the weight of its load, R.O.K. troops herded all the passengers off by shooting bursts of burp gunfire over their heads. The 4,000 Koreans scrambled blithely ashore and stood around grinning amiably, while the R.O.K. officers and the ship's crew argued furiously over the snafu and the skipper strained vainly to get his craft...
...last July, Lieut. Leon A. Gilbert, Negro company commander in the U.S. 25th Division, dug in on a hillside position near Sangju with orders to hold at all costs. From three sides, wave upon wave of enemy fire from mortars and whinnying burp guns splattered and rolled over his position. Two hours later, Lieut. Gilbert and 15 of his men were found wandering aimlessly 1,200 yards to the rear. Ordered to move up, he refused, mumbled that he had been ambushed and cut off, and that he had a wife and children to consider...
...about three companies of Chinese. One of my patrols picked the first ones up about 150 yards out. The Chinese charged in and overwhelmed us with a real mass attack. About three out of every ten of them were loaded with automatic weapons of some sort-Tommy guns, burp guns or automatic carbines. Others carried .25-caliber Jap rifles. They were all loaded down with grenades...