Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marines' left, in the Hwachon area, an R.O.K. division was holding eight miles of front. Although this Korean unit had fought well in other battles, its men were frightened by the heaviest artillery, mortar and small-arms fire they had ever seen, and completely demoralized by the Reds' attack signals: bugles, whistles, green flares. The ROKs broke...
Gullies Full of Dead. In one sector, before launching their infantry, the Reds laid down their heaviest artillery barrage of the war. U.S. guns (including 155-mm. Long Toms, which can fire 15 miles) roared a reply, hurling 25,000 fragmentation and white phosphorus shells on one division front alone. "The gullies in front of us," said an artillery officer, "are already full of Chinese dead, and we intend to keep adding to the piles." The rumble and flash of the guns could be heard and seen almost all the way to Seoul. By the light of parachute flares...
Meanwhile, coming down the Sontay valley to the west were more Communists, this time threatening Hanoi. Again De Lattre broke up their concentrations with his bombers. But the next day, on an 18-mile front in the mountains southwest of Dongtrieu, the Communists launched their heaviest attack. To the sound of bugle calls, Communist infantrymen loaded with suicide equipment threw themselves, screaming, on the French lines. After two days' steady fighting, the French threw the Communists back with a loss of 500 dead, 1,500 wounded. In the recaptured territory the French found another French officer tortured to death...
Night-flying aircraft crews scouting North Korea's roads last week spotted one of the heaviest enemy movements toward the front since the Chinese Communist crossing of the Yalu. More than 2,000 vehicles were headed through the darkness for the Red lines above the 38th parallel. Night after night, and even by day, the ominous traffic to the front continued. U.N. air strikes attacked it but could...
...scheduled airlines without the legal authorization and without the responsibilities. Most of the non-skeds got their start by buying surplus war transports, are still largely shoestring operations. Since they don't have to give the public service on unprofitable runs, they stick to runs where traffic is heaviest. CAB knows that its new regulation will make a big dent in the non-skeds' business, but it offered the non-skeds something else. It would permit them to fly on domestic routes on a contract basis for the Department of Defense. But such permission is no help...