Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar shell catches him in the leg, and he is invalided back to Milan. She is transferred to the same hospital. Days she takes his temperature; nights she makes it soar. When he goes back to his unit, she goes away to have their baby...
...Patrolling the Algerian side of the Tunisian border early one morning, Captain Rene Allard and 43 men of France's 23rd Infantry Regiment came under heavy mortar fire. Before long, 15 Frenchmen lay dead. The rebels, Allard later reported, had launched their attack from nearby Tunisia, were accompanied by vehicles of theTunisian National Guard. When French reinforcements arrived, the Algerians fled back into Tunisia, carrying with them four French prisoners...
Wait for the mortar shell...
...them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, granddaughter of Munitions King Alfred ("Alfred the Great") Krupp, and herself fourth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, mother of the current (since 1943) Steel Kingpin Alfried Krupp (TIME, Aug. 19), who gave her name to the famed Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed World War I forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France; of a heart ailment; in Essen, Germany...