Word: firefight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point where there was no fence. Thai guards responsible for base security flashed the alarm. By that time, however, the intruders had already damaged two planes, an F-4D Phantom fighter bomber and a C-141 jet transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically. Two guerrillas were killed and two were captured. Following the Udorn attack, all other bases in Thailand were put on full alert, and U.S. base security guards, previously armed only with pistols, were issued M-16 rifles...
...After a firefight, you find one American invader wounded by a spike trap, two vicious henchmen blown up by a grenade booby trap and five puppet soldiers shattered by a mine. How many dead and wounded are there...
That jungle firefight took place more than two years ago, but it is still remembered as one of the first successful combat tests of the "starlight scope"-one of the prying electronic gadgets developed by the Defense Department "to take the night away from Charlie." Lieut. Hibbs was well briefed on the scope's importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped...
...which the enemy is almost always at hand and almost never seen. No commentator's rhetoric comes between the audience and the action. All that is on the sound track is the noise of what is happening -the tense silence of a patrol exploding into a racketing firefight, the terrible pleadings of wounded men, the ominous urgency of a chaplain's sermon about death. The men of Mike Company are not identified by name until the epilogue; by that time many of them have already established their personalities by what they...
After a sharp firefight, police wounded the assailant and dragged him from a nearby cellar. He was identified as a 23-year-old Munich house painter named Josef Bachmann, who had traveled to Berlin expressly to kill Dutschke. "I read about Martin Luther King and thought, 'You too must do something like this,' " he explained to police. Even as Dutschke underwent a successful five-hour operation for the removal of a bullet from his skull, and seemed to be on the way to recovery, the news of the attempted assassination caused Germany's most widespread civil disturbances...