Word: mortaring
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...noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route. Every pair of 81-mm. mortar rounds fired by Giap's men in the South represents a three-month hike down the trail...
...down the dark street, from both sides, intense automatic fire raged. Five of us dived for cover into one courtyard, the others into an adjoining one. Outside in the street, a tremendous explosion resounded-either an M-79 grenade or a 60-mm. mortar shell. Three of the other newsmen, peering out a door, were wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside...
...immediacy of Nhat Hanh's experiences in the war turned political cliches into moving arguments for stopping the war: "I was in a village outside of Saigon after the Viet Cong mortar attack on a U.S. airbase. Six Viet Cong passed through the village and retreated into the jungle. Then the bombing began. Many houses were knocked down and innocent people killed; a piece of rocket fell only a meter from...
...their bodies told of an impending Viet Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar and machine-gun fire from a Red outpost hidden by shoulder-high, saw-edged elephant grass...
...Deadly Accuracy. The Viet Cong, for their part, showed that they have not lost their sting. In their most successful attack of the war on an American installation, they launched a daring nighttime hit-and-run mortar barrage against crowded Tan Son Nhut airbase three miles north of Saigon, which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets...