Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter Ulbricht moved on to bigger things. With mortar made in Moscow, he built a stone coffin for a land of 18 million people and called it the German Democratic Republic...
...Harry. Battling hand to hand in their crumbling trenches, the outnumbered G.I.s drove the Reds off. The shelling continued. One by one, the bunkers collapsed, covering American and Chinese bodies with sand and dust. King was reinforced; the Reds attacked again & again. During the night, 20,000 artillery and mortar shells had exploded in an area smaller than Times Square. But the hill remained in U.S. hands...
Fill the Envelope. Construction workers' hours are also staggered so they will waste no time, e.g., some of the men arrive at 7 A.M. to start mixing mortar for the bricklayers, who come at 8. The whole operation resembles an assembly line in reverse; instead of having the product carried along to stations where materials are stored, the materials are carried to the product...
...fortnight they advanced almost 150 miles, leaving behind them French mountain-top outposts abandoned, surrounded, or in smoldering ruins, their tiny garrisons besieged, captured, dead or defected. At week's end the Communists had flowed around the Plaine des Janes, after giving it a blast of mortar fire, and were pouring past it westward. As the three columns began to converge, it became clear that Giap's objective was the ancient Laotian capital of Luang Prabang, seat of King...
This exchange made the hearing's only headlines. Most of Van Fleet's testimony was a reprise of things he had said before. He stuck to his guns, insisting that shortages of ammunition-especially of mortar and 155-mm. howitzer shells- had made it impossible to "plan adequate defensive fire, harassing, interdiction and counterbattery, to keep the enemy from launching an attack." Asked whether he had enough ammunition to halt a Chinese offensive, Van Fleet replied: Yes, but only because "the Chinese cannot maintain an offensive for more than a few weeks. They do not know...