Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something more akin to hell. Since Sept. 1, the outpost, less than two miles from the southern edge of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams, has been under relentless bombardment from Communist guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest single Red bombardment of the war. In August, the leathernecks took 388 casualties along the northern defense line that stretches from the South China Sea to Khe Sanh...
...night the Communist artillery eases up, and the 5,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounding the Con Thien area become active. They probe the outpost's defenses, shove bamboo bangalore torpedoes under the barbed wire to breach the perimeter, and unleash mortar and recoilless-rifle
Killebrew's squat body twisted around, shoulders back, chest facing the left field wall. A human mortar gun rocked back on its heels, the ball spinning up as if shot from his groin. So Harmon did have it in him. The ball went right over Yastrzemski, and Carl could do nothing to stop a home run that stood between him and an undisputed lead for the Triple Crown. Kaat vs. Santiago. Yastzemski vs. Killebrew. Minnesota vs. Boston. The duals lined up perfectly, and the mind boggled at coincidence. It was a bad sign, that home run, because...
...supplies are brought in by air. Last week a Marine battalion providing security for the road was attacked by two battalions of North Viet Nam's 324-B Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd of turtles." The battle raged for five hours. While the Marines on the ground fought at times hand to hand, F-4 Phantoms dropped...
Three days later the Communists attacked Con Thien itself, and a North Vietnamese company followed a heavy artillery and mortar barrage right up to the camp's wire. Repulsed, the Communists withdrew after half an hour, but four Marines were killed and 15 wounded defending the camp perimeter. And all week long, the shells rained down as usual on the Marines. One attack of 80 rounds of 82-mm. mortar fire killed four and wounded 93. Another of rocket and artillery fire killed nine Marines and wounded...