Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transports made their rendezvous outside the coral reefs of the island, and the landing craft darted in towards the beaches. U.S. soldiers and U.S. marines swarmed ashore at Agingan Point, while Japs who had survived the bombardment bit into them with enfilading fire from automatic weapons, pounded them with mortar shells...
Penned in a Normandy farmhouse, 13 paratroopers of the crack 82nd Division heard the rising crash of American rifle and mortar fire outside. Downstairs their German captors fought savagely in de fense of the house: the American prisoners heard the German commander tell his troops to fight to the last...
...Those Mortars." Mortar fire from the cliffs fell like rain on one beach. Over the radio came a pleading voice to R.A.F. Spitfire pilots wheeling overhead: "For God's sake get those mortars quick. Dig them out, boys, they are right down our necks." The Spitfires dipped down and dug the Nazis...
...Enemy Was Waiting. As the green-clad soldiers piled out of the boats, the Japs opened up with mortar and machine gun. Allied rocket boats darted inshore, hurling their fireballs. Destroyers smashed at shore batteries. Under the curtain, more infantry poured in. The fire of American tommy guns, machine guns, carbines and mortars grew stronger...
Inside the historic landmark, correspondents found German hand grenades piled beside the headless statue of St. Benedict. Elsewhere there were bazookas, many cases of mortar ammunition, machine guns (the Germans had cried in February that the abbey was not being used for military purposes...