Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross orderly in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, I was present when a badly frightened soldier was admitted to an army hospital with an eight-inch unexploded mortar shell partially embedded in his shoulder. Surgeons and demolition experts deliberated on the advisability of deactivating the shell before attempting surgical removal. In the meantime, the victim decided to take matters into his own hands, forcibly wrenched the shell from his shoulder. He tried to hand it to one of the experts, but quite suddenly he was all alone in the room. Eventually the shell was deactivated, and the soldier made...
...visit 20 miles from Caracas. Arriving at the site carved out of a hillside, he was shown around a one-story building and cautioned to follow his guides closely: the area was infested with booby traps. The place was a well-equipped munitions plant turning out everything from mortar shells to land mines for Castroite F.A.L.N. terror ists-thus proving once again Fidel Castro's determination to rip the hemisphere with Communist "wars of national liberation...
...supplies and a Russian flag in the building. A heavy, hydraulically operated concrete door led to a cavern in the hillside behind the house. There, in a vault-shaped room, was an impressive arsenal of weapons: a 20-mm. cannon, a 3.5-in. bazooka, stacks of rifles, pistols, homemade mortar tubes and hundreds of shells, grenades and shaped demolition charges. With lathes, presses and other tools-and a gasoline generator to power them-terrorists had been turning out enough arms to supply a small army...
...snapped combat pictures on a ridge at Iwo Jima while bullets sprayed around her. She cracked up in a Jeep under mortar fire in Cuba. She was threatened with hanging in a Communist prison in Hungary. She parachuted into Viet Cong territory and got back with the story and pictures she had gone after. But last week War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle's luck ran out. While covering a Marine operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer and radio station WOR, she stepped on a land mine and became the fourth war correspondent to be killed in Viet...
...eloquently as the gunfire or casualty lists, the G.I. gallows humor vented at the low point of Plei Me's siege last week, expressed the professionalism and grim resolve of the U.S. fighting man in Viet Nam. In the beleaguered camp, American soldiers weathered 178 hours of constant mortar and recoilless rifle barrage, fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned...