Word: mortaring
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...Germans looted Romanoglio of its few farm machines, its clocks and its vino. Then the Eighth Army, advancing beyond the Sangro River in its mile-a-day advance to the north, finished the town. Shells splintered its olive groves, bashed in its shaky, brick-and-mortar houses, pitted its scrofulous, winding streets. After the shelling came the British tanks. After the tanks came the Gurkhas from India. They left their guns behind and moved like a scythe through the village with their curved steel kukris drawn. They came out with only one pris oner, a German officer. They had never...
First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...
...Darkness. Related Sergeant Azine: "About 8 o'clock we got our first sign of the enemy. He started throwing mortar shells at us, without damage. We had been told we could expect Japs in person next. Our fellows on the fringes began firing Tommy guns and rifles. Some of it was jitters but some was Japs...
Master Gunnery Sergeant Leland Stanford Diamond, the Marine's Marine and the Corp's most famed mortar expert (TIME, July 5), is back from the wars. He is running the Hygienic Unit (local name-delousing plant) at Marine Barracks, Parris Island...
...Gilbert Bundy, onetime Esquire and New Yorker cartoonist now assigned to do war sketches for King Features Syndicate, started in later. About 75 yards offshore his boat received a direct hit, probably from a Jap 90-mm. mortar. All but one man in it were either killed or blown into the water. Bundy was unharmed...