Word: mortaring
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...farm hand and mechanic. He learned to walk at five months, to ride a pony at six years, could draw an accurate bead on a tomato can at 50 yards when he was seven. Last September after the Salerno landing his battalion was pinned down by machine-gun and mortar fire. Disregarding a broken instep, the big Indian advanced alone, killed two Germans who fired at him from a nearby house. Then he slipped behind a machine-gun nest, killed its two occupants, picked off another German in another nest, captured one more. This week...
...bombers, thirteen of the 20 escorting Zeros were shot down by U.S. fighters. Of one day's fighting, TIME Correspondent James Shepley reported: "The field of this attack . . . was almost cleared of trees, sawed off by machine-gun fire and broken into shredded stumps by mortar bursts. When the attack ended I counted the bodies of 50 Japs in an area hardly bigger than my backyard at Bethesda, Md. Most of them were still in their foxholes where they had been shot or bayoneted by the Chinese...
Actually the infantryman of today comes nearer to being a man of all weapons. Except for the airplane, the tank and the artillery, the infantry uses most of the weapons in the arsenal of a modern army: not only the rifle and bayonet but the Tommy gun, machine gun, mortar, hand and rifle grenades, bazooka, flame thrower, good-sized anti-tank artillery...
...Germans still held Hill 165, from which they poured a deadly mortar fire on the hard-fighting New Zealand troops in the town. Although Castle Hill, just behind it, is in Allied hands, tricky terrain enabled the Germans to infiltrate through a ravine to the rear whenever New Zealanders attempted to attack Hill 165. The Germans in turn were frustrated in several attempts to regain Castle Hill...
...Retreat. When he had run out of rifles and the enemy was closing in, Kelly snatched up 60-mm. mortar shells, pulled the safety pins and threw them as hand grenades. One burst killed five Nazis. But that could not go on indefinitely. The detachment had to pull...