Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipment and they knew how to use it. They handled their hard-hitting, Russian-made tanks well; they were smart, tireless infantrymen and they were close to wonderful with mortars and artillery. At one stage of the battle a U.S. soldier observed bitterly that they could drop a mortar shell "in your hip pocket...
...center of the street, six Pershing tanks wheeled into position to advance. Directly in front of the lead tank lay the body of a Red soldier who had been caught in the burst of a white phosphorus shell. The corpse was still burning as the tank's right tread passed over it, extinguishing the flame and grinding the body into a grisly compost of flesh and cinders...
Shot for Shot. At the receiving end of all the shot & shell, the carnage should have been ghastly. But that was far from the case. Shot for shot, Taft fired back. Who had been in charge of U.S. foreign policy for the last 18 years? he demanded. He taunted the Democrats and labor for invading Ohio to dictate to the voters, challenged the unwilling Ferguson to platform debates, visited factories during working hours and got himself photographed with grinning workmen. In the voice that often sounds like a twanging zither, he replied to Averell Harriman in kind: "Until his conversion...
Three other newsmen were wounded in Korea. Most seriously hurt was NBC's 24-year-old cameraman, Gene Jones, who with his twin brother Charles was taking newsreel pictures of the Inchon invasion. Soon after he hit the beach, Jones was badly wounded by shell fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...
...Have to ..." It is midnight and all around the hills are astir. Here a sharp burst of small-arms fire, there the flashing life & death of an American shell, searching out the enemy who we know are gathering within 5,000 yards of this command post. One of the field telephones rings, an officer of the staff picks it up, listens a moment and says, "Oh, Christ, there's a column of refugees, three or four hundred of them, coming right down on B company." A major in the command tent says to the regimental commander...