Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lead platoon of Communists approached the pass, some overeager G.I.s opened fire, instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been...
...Mansei!" Almost on the heels of the first wave of Reds came a U.S. counterattack. Spearheaded by five tanks and two M-8 reconnaissance cars, truckloads of G.I.s from the 19th Infantry Regiment roared through the pass and down into the valley below. Heavy Communist fire damaged the two recon cars and three tanks. The G.I.s, supported by covering fire from the pass, spilled out of their trucks, began fighting a day-long melee in the valley and on the crests of the surrounding hills...
Slowly the weight of two full Red regiments pushed the undermanned U.S. units back toward the pass. But at the pass, the G.I.s stuck. Time & time again, Red charges smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...
...They Never Served. By late afternoon the battle was almost over. A Sherman tank stood watchfully around the bend of the road at the head of the pass. On the slopes of the nearby hills, mortar crews and machine-gunners looked out over the valley, which was quiet now. Beyond the pass there was an eerie silence. All our outposts had withdrawn to prepared positions. The wounded had been removed from the field during the fighting, thanks to the heroic efforts of Army Medical Corpsmen who drove jeeploads of groaning soldiers back from the front, heedless of enemy fire...
...slopes leading down to the valley belonged to the dead. Along the wall of the cliff in the pass lay the hideously twisted bodies of North Korean soldiers. Red machine-gun crews were lashed in death to a gun they had never had a chance to serve...