Word: halftrack
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...knocking out one German emplacement after another. Heroism in the hills helped. Under heavy fire, an American sergeant maneuvered his antitank gun to the top of a ridge, demolished six tanks in half an hour. A British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked why the sword, Churchill replied: "In my opinion, any officer who goes into...
With Tryfus' patrol, I rode off in an armored halftrack, preceded by a jeep. The jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
Noisy Helmets. At one place the Chinese captured a U.N. half-track mounting four .50-caliber machine guns. When a group of combat-dazed South Koreans, shuffling back to the rear, saw the halftrack, they ignored it, thinking it was in friendly hands. The Chinese in the vehicle pressed the firing button and held it down. Luckily for the ROKs who survived, the Chinese apparently did not know how to reload, and when the .50s stopped firing they jumped out and disappeared...
...howitzers are still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...