Word: cannoneering
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...rumble from the rear; and volley after volley of 105-mm. shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge 175-mm. guns elevates slowly, and systematically begins to destroy the remnant of resistance...
...three Phantoms were flying northwest, into the evening sun, escorting a slow, radar-laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass...
...warning of trouble to come was the muffled clomp of steel biting into earth as entrenching tools signaled the fact that the enemy was digging in near the camp's wire. Then a white phosphorus mortar shell exploded inside A Shau, and the valley night erupted in recoilless cannon and machine-gun fire, the flash of shells and burning buildings. All night long the enemy poured fire into the compound. Daylight brought dive bombers to the aid of the besieged defenders, though the clouds hung so low that enemy antiaircraft guns were often firing down on allied planes from...
...troops were scouring a ten-sq.-mi. coastal area near Palomares, and 16 ships-including three deep-sea subs-were combing the ocean floor. All they turned up were 200 chunks of metal, ranging from one of the aircraft's latrines to an old man-o'-war cannon ball...
Born. To Cary Grant, 62, Hollywood's still-leading man (Walk, Don't Run), and Dyan Cannon, 28, sometime actress, his fourth wife: Cry's first child, a daughter; in Burbank, Calif...