Word: mortaring
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Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific white-haired Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond read his citation: ". . . outstanding performance of duty on Tulagi and Guadalcanal ... an ideal Marine." In Washington the Marine Corps proudly released the record of its paragon, already famed (TIME, Feb. 22) for the history his mortar crew made in the Solomons...
Invasion. A British golf magazine, referring to it as a monstrous act, asked discipline for a young officer who had chosen the Sandwich Golf Course greens as mortar targets...
...return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...
First undergraduate casualty of the war is Henry S. Bonner '45 of Rye Center, N. H., who was wounded by mortar shell fragments in the North African campaign, according to reports reaching here yesterday...
Wounded by mortar fire in Tunisia and saved from death by his steel helmet (TIME, May 3), tough little Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, was quickly on his feet again. He was the 28th U.S. general officer to become a casualty in operations against the enemy...