Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, three other newsmen joined to help carry the man back to the rear. Just as the newsmen picked up the dying Marine, an enemy mortar round landed a few yards from them, blowing them into a ditch. Shrapnel hit Greenway in the left leg. He was taken out of Hué in a helicopter and treated at the U.S. military hospital...
...crumbled buildings, among the jagged battlements of the Citadel's six-mile wall, in darkened houses and inside the secondary wall of the imperial city. Enemy sharpshooters trained their scopes on the allies from Hué's highest spots; machine-gunners picked wide-angle vantage points; and mortar fire struck everywhere, like an infernal rain...
...Even if the Communists begin to win at Khesanh, there are serious doubts that nuclear weapons would be useful at all. The hilly terrain around the base would seriously limit the effectiveness of nuclear weapons against enemy mortar sites. "This just isn't nuke country," a colonel at Khesanh said. "There are too many damn hills...
...Mortar Bait. For the surrounded Marines at Khe Sanh, life is dreary days of digging deeper in their trenches and bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact...
...June. In those eight months, the Israeli government had counted 91 separate incidents along the Jordanian border. Then the Jordanians suddenly stepped up the violence. Sporadic artillery duels sent kibbutz dwellers in Galilee scurrying for cover and killed 17 Arabs in a refugee camp near the Allenby Bridge. Three mortar shells exploded in Jerusalem. Bazooka shells landed near the airport at Lydda...