Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of August 31 on the Nak-tong River Line, Sergeant Kouma's tank was surrounded by 500 screaming Koreans. While the infantry pulled back, Kouma drilled round after round of cannon and machine-gun fire into the charging Reds. The Koreans kept coming. Kouma leaped from his turret, crawled back to a .50-cal. machine gun mounted on the tank's rear deck, fired until it was empty. He hauled out his .45, emptied that, and began heaving grenades. Nine hours later, bleeding and exhausted, Kouma rode his tank back to the company line. In its wake...
...revolved in turret round, And warned the Southern foe That ne'er a band of selfish men Our Union could o'erthrow' No more her ironclad deck shall boast The strength to make men free;--Sixth Naval District brass have scorned The Scourge of Slavery...
...still. He filled his belt with tin cans packed with fused dynamite. Then he slid through the weeds toward the tank. When it seemed to the peasants that El Campesino was done for, he threw twice: one bomb hit the tank's treads, the other its turret. That finished the tank...
...turret man was waving his big 50-cal. machine gun at me, and I figured he was going to let me have it. I yelled, 'I'm a G.I.' He looked at me and then the other way. The tank went right...
...design-award from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order was for $7,672 worth of parts for Convair's Stinson observation planes. The company kept going during World War II by making such varied products as ammo boxes, gun turret parts and tail assemblies...