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Positioned on a mountainside in between, the Americans unleash their own barrage. During four hours of battle, I saw U.S. forces drill Ansar with mortars, heavy machine-gun and antiaircraft artillery, 40-mm grenades and 500-lb. bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one stage an Ansar defender screamed, "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
...hamlet of Hajil, American helicopters overhead report white pickups, the preferred ride for the fedayeen, leaving town. A yellow-and-white taxi makes the mistake of pulling out in front of a tank, and the machine gunner opens up. Rounds explode across the car, and the driver is hit in the thigh and the back. He is treated and medevacked...
...courage: I had to go. Outside. I couldn't stop thinking that being picked off by a sniper while taking a leak would be a truly embarrassing way to die. Shortly thereafter, two British tanks moved into the area (now that's relief) and two Cobra helicopters arrived overhead, to cheers from the camp...
Signature Landing Point of Overhead Smash: Way long...
...beside her, their bodies swollen with burns. Neighbors stumbled by, naked, skin hanging off them in shreds. Corpses littered the road. It was Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima. No one in the southern Japanese city had paid much attention to the distant buzz of three American B-29 bombers overhead. But one of them was the Enola Gay, and at 8:15 a.m. it dropped a single bomb that unleashed the "rain of ruin" President Truman had promised if Japan did not surrender...