Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This lethal pipe organ shoots fifteen 4.5-inch rockets at once (some models shoot 24 or more), but is not very accurate; it is best used to lay pre-attack barrages on the enemy's rear areas, is sometimes mounted on tanks...
...Chinese Communists last week seemed to be getting ready to attack Formosa. For two days, Red shore batteries shelled Quemoy Island, three miles off the mainland port of Amoy. Nationalist intelligence reported that four Communist armies had been moved into position along the coast under leadership of Red General Chen Yi, who boasted last week that his forces had been assigned the glorious task of "liberating" Formosa...
Against the Reds stands the U.S. Seventh Fleet, under orders from President Truman to "secure" Formosa from attack. The Nationalists themselves have an army of 400,000 men on Formosa, an air force of 300 planes and a tiny navy...
...force returned some of its attention to hunting down Yaks. Corsairs, Panther jets and land-based F-80s made a two-day attack on airfields at Pyongyang and Yonpo, knocking out at least 30 enemy planes on the ground...
This gun fires on a relatively flat trajectory with extraordinary accuracy. The Long Tom (maximum range: 14½ miles) can reach into enemy assembly areas, hit tank and troop concentrations and supply depots before the attack begins. In World War II the Long Tom was widely admired in all theaters as a tough, reliable weapon...