Word: mortaring
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...such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...
...before heading back to Korea to cover the war. For 23-year-old Frank Emery, who had been wounded while on a daring patrol behind Red lines with Correspondent Randolph Churchill (TIME, Sept. 4), it was the end of a two-week convalescence. Until he was hit by a mortar burst, hardworking, chance-taking Frank Emery had been up front almost continuously. So had Photographer Charles Rosecrans. A dark, wiry little man who usually sported a billygoat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific almost from start to finish, was in Tokyo when...
...Michaelis' men knew-the colonel was a hard man to scare. In the face of Kim's enveloping move, Mike sat tight and blasted away with his expertly placed artillery. He had some bad moments when his artillery fire control center, directing four batteries, suffered a direct mortar hit which killed his best fire control personnel. But under Mike Michaelis' skillful direction the batteries continued to fire...
Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now, are you?" a correspondent asked. "Those flies just came off those dead over there in the ditch...
...Emery was it an entirely new experience; Churchill was a World War II commando officer and renowned for his flamboyant courage under fire. All went well for two hours, while they prowled around in the Communist lines. Then, as they started back, the Reds opened fire and three mortar shells exploded among them. Both Emery and Churchill were hit by shrapnel; the G.I. between them was so badly wounded that he was abandoned. The patrol waded and crawled back to the U.N. lines...