Word: mortarmen
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...highly reliable Chinese-made 82-mm. mortars that they have been using for years with great effectiveness. Though the mortars have a limited range (1.8 miles), they are easy to carry about because they break down into three portable components. Many of the Communists have become such expert mortarmen that the crews can get off 25 rounds a minute...
...accurate North Vietnamese mortarmen did manage to inflict some spectacular damage on Dak To before pulling back. Firing 82-mm. mortars from less than two miles away, the Communists destroyed two big C-130 transport planes sitting on the Dak To airstrip. Then, in a second attack the same day, they scored a direct hit on the hastily built-up Dak To ammunition dump. For the next eight hours U.S. soldiers in and around Dak To cowered in their bunkers while tracer bullets arced in all directions, flares popped like fireworks and shells exploded. Seven tons of C-4 plastic...
...crack of explosions rang loud and near. "Gee," said a woman, "I hope that's a salute." Hubert Humphrey peered into the rainswept gloom outside Saigon's Independence Palace and said: "I hope so, too." The three salvos were in fact salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells hit in the palace...
...zone was so small that much of the French supplies and many paratroop reinforcements drifted into the enemy lines. In one sector the Communists were only about 700 yards from the French center, and the front lines were often less than 40 yards apart. The Red field gunners and mortarmen had perhaps the most concentrated target in all Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective by comparison: it had lost about half of its guns. The surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French...
...strip, Jap snipers and machine-gunners were firing. In a little revetment was the headquarters of Major Henry P. ("Jim") Crowe, a tough, red-mustached veteran who had risen from the Marine ranks to command of one of the assault battalions. Near by passed a parade of wiremen, riflemen, mortarmen and stretcher bearers...
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