Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dacca, army tanks and truckloads of troops with fixed bayonets came clattering out of their suburban base, shouting "Victory to Allah," and "Victory to Pakistan." TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who, along with other newsmen, was subsequently expelled from Pakistan, reported: "Before long, howitzer, tank artillery and rocket blasts rocked half a dozen scattered sections of Dacca. Tracers arced over the darkened city. The staccato chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated with grenade explosions, and tall columns of black smoke towered over the city. In the night came the occasional cry of 'Joi Bangla [Victory to Bengal],' followed...
...friends died in a rocket attack. They were on the ground just next to me at the time," one paratrooper said, his head wrapped in white bandages, his eyes peering through, as he waited to be treated in a hot tent serving as an emergency hospital...
...such kinks, U.S. commanders are convinced that their new brand of airmobile warfare is a success. In fact, there is some concern among the brass that "the other side" is all too appreciative of the chopper's virtues. Soviet pilots, they note, have been flying Russian helicopters, including rocket-firing gunships, in support of the little-noticed guerrilla struggle in the Sudan (TIME, March 1). When the allies went into Cambodia last spring, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap himself hastened to one of Cambodia's eastern provinces for a look-see. His means of transportation...
...pilots have reported heavy North Vietnamese mortar and rocket fire at the base, which they claim is "doomed." Because of the heavy fire pilots are having difficulty flying in supplies, and some South Vietnamese forces were reported running low on artillery ammunition...
...Military sources reported yesterday that rocket and mortar shelling of Khe Sanh, a South Vietnamese supply point and flight center for operations into Laos, has been the heaviest since...