Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patched up their prefab bunkers and settled in. Captain Howard ("Spike") Connolly, commanding, set out the bright green battle flag of St. Michael, made for the Marines by Korean orphans. In the next twelve hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust and dirt...
...Gavenda's work detail planned the escape. Prison guards armed with submachine guns patrolled the top of the fortress wall, but the work detail wangled a job close to the tunnel entrance. Each day one man crept into the tunnel and scratched away at the still soft mortar. One of the six men seemed too weak to make the break. This was the one they called Johnny, a shy, silent 24-year-old with pinched cheeks and the jumpy eyes of a man who has spent a long time in solitary. He was having trouble with his feet...
...bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found the far end jammed with bricks and fresh mortar...
Payoff. Last week, at Massachusetts' Watertown Arsenal, the Army displayed weapons made with titanium parts. The Army hopes eventually to make entire vehicles for air drops out of the wonder metal. The infantry has tested a titanium base plate for its 81-mm. mortar, found that the lighter plate will permit it to reduce a mortar crew from four to three men. The Navy, which now carries a spare snorkel in submarines because they corrode so fast, has begun experimenting with non-corrosive titanium breathers...
Fire from the Heights. He enlisted in the Army again. Last summer he was sent to Korea, and was assigned to a heavy-mortar outfit, Company L of the 38th Infantry Regiment. One bitter cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...