Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese were tenacious, so Wray called for artillery and air support. High explosive shells dug dark geysers out of Hill 166, air bursts twinkled brightly above it, and mortar shells dropped in with their smashing slam. During the barrage, the Americans scanned Hill 166. When the shelling lifted, they went back to their small arms. Sergeant Thomas Toolen pointed to a Red pillbox nestled close by the graves. "See it?" he asked then "Hey, Graham, give him a couple of rounds!" Pfc. Donald Graham fired a short burst from his BAR across the shallow valley into the Communist emplacements...
During the Eisenhower visit in January the police made a spectacular haul in Milan's O.M. (Officine Mecchaniche) automotive plant. Inside an old, sealed air-raid shelter were a 45-mm. mortar, five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...
Tuesday night, three Red Chinese divisions attacked. Mortar, machine-gun and shell fire poured in from Communist entrenchments surrounding the town. Next day, the attack abated; cargo planes dropped food and ammunition into the 23rd's position, while U.N. fighters clawed Red positions with rockets and machine guns. At dusk the Chinese came in again. The 23rd's ammunition ran low. G.I.s combed the glove compartments of jeeps for spare cartridges. When the Chinese assaulted a French-held hill, the Frenchmen threw them back with a bayonet charge...
...Argylls counterattacked and retook the hill. Major Muir fired a mortar, shouted to his men, "The gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill." The Argylls held, but their commander died on Hill...
...Ouden ordered ammunition given to the strangers. Their leader thanked him. The 40 men withdrew a few yards, loaded their weapons, then whirled and fired into the stunned Dutch. An enemy mortar barrage joined in, blasted the U.N. position. A vicious street fight broke out. When the action was over, Colonel den Ouden and many of his staff lay dead...