Word: mortaring
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...They told us that a medium tank cost $90,000; an 81-mm. trench mortar $800; a 60-mm. trench mortar cost $500, and we made the appropriation on that basis." Mr. Engel said he learned later that a medium tank "actually cost" $60,000; an 81-mm. mortar less than $600; a 60-mm. mortar less than...
...black, oily beach a thousand yards off, a strip of LSTs and LCIs lay high & dry. Jap artillery and heavy mortar was splashing around them. Farther inland our naval barrage was laying in some white puffs amid the jungle green. We had been at general quarters since dawn and the machine-gun bursts from the shore side told of men fighting and dying there. But to the machinist's mate sitting alone in the quiet of his anguish, the war and all its noises had faded away. The war had lost its meaning. Everything he had been trained...
...soon as Doss had finished his reading, the attack began. The assault force gained the top of the escarpment, then was driven back by heavy Jap mortar fire. When the company reassembled at the bottom of the hill, Doss was missing...
...fact was driven home first to Lieut. Colonel Byron F. King's battalion. They had come to the ridge after an easy march from their landing places, only to find themselves pinned against a main Japanese defense line, boxed in by artillery fire, their flanks under merciless mortar attack...
...army waited while the materiel needed to crack these lines was assembled. Some days the front was almost quiet. Every night it was a roaring hell. Mortar shells, 600 and 1,000 pounders, smashed against the U.S. lines, 300 to the hour. Artillery fire drummed incessantly...