Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date. Twelve big Sikorskys made a total of 162 round trips, finishing the job, without a hitch or a casualty, in 6 hr. 15 min., almost an hour ahead of schedule. The landing point was within range of enemy mortar positions, but apparently the Reds could not see what was going on; no hostile fire was received...
...allied divisions (one U.S., two South Korean) was launched at Kumsong, the Reds' main supply and assembly base on the central front. ¶The Reds proved that they had not been bludgeoned into inertia. In the west, they hit the 1st Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked from three sides, overrun and cut to ribbons...
...great hall where initiation rites and orgies were once celebrated. They found the bones of sacrificed sheep, and the pits to receive their blood. So far as possible, they put the place in order, though much of the marble had been burned to lime, centuries ago, to make mortar for early Christian churches...
Bunkers & Blasts. Heartbreak Ridge has been the fiercest Korean battle in four months, worse than Bloody Ridge, worse than the Punchbowl. The North Koreans were holed up in stout, deep bunkers that resisted direct artillery and mortar hits. When they lost some of these in hand-to-hand fights, they threw in a series of heavy counterattacks, using five regiments one after another. Twice Americans got to the top, only to be blasted off by enemy fire. This week neither side held it, although at some points on the slopes their positions were only yards apart. The dirty, unshaven...
...cavalry (all on white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then lobbed a few mortar shells onto the Palomar runways, and the fighting was over. Casualties: one dead, seven wounded...