Word: mortaring
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...Pepper" Martin-taking the hard way back to his old post in Chungking -faced the mortar fire at Peleliu with the first landing wave, found himself pinned on the sands between two quizzical Marines ("I wonder where we are." "It sure ain't Staten Island...
...field telephone buzzed. The colonel listened and growled into it: "We're still going but some of my companies are damned small." A Jap mortar opened up and the men around the colonel flattened out. The C.O. himself did not change his position. He stuck out his chest and spat: "The bastards...
...Americans had only 26 boats. They gathered their craft half a mile downstream while British artillery raked the Germans across the river. But when the first force of Americans pushed off, the river splattered around them with machine-gun and mortar fire. Each of the 26 boats carried a dozen men, but only 13 boats returned for more paratroopers. Some paddled, some bailed with their canteen cups. This time only eight boats returned (one carried back three dead and four wounded). After the third trip there were only five boats. They kept going...
Through these defenses, up these slopes, the marines fought. They rushed defiles on Bloody Nose, and burned out caves with flamethrowers. While they were at the bloody business, many of them were cut down by machine-gun and mortar fire. The division's 1st Regiment soon suffered 60% casualties. After ten days the marines had occupied five-sixths of the 2-by-6-mile island. Interim score: 7,313 Jap dead. Still to go: about 3,200 (estimated strength of the original garrison was upped from...
...Japs, waiting in their pillboxes, blockhouses and hillside caves, were still alive and full of fight when Major General William H. Rupertus' famed ist Marine Division (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester) hit the teach last week. TIME Correspondent Robert Martin, lying on the sand between two marines, pinned down by mortar fire, heard one say "I wonder where we are." Said the other "It sure as hell ain't Staten Island...