Word: recoilless
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celebrated South Viet Nam's National Day by lobbing 75-mm. recoilless-rifle shells into downtown Saigon. Last month a 25-man sabotage squad slipped through the heavily guarded perimeter of Tan Son Nhut, nearly reached a parking apron filled with warplanes be fore they were discovered and shot down. As it turns out, the Viet Cong made a mistake by pressing the city so hard: they jolted the U.S. high com mand into action...
...recoilless rifles, even posted a sign on the outskirts of the village: "We will fight to the last...
...back to his howitzers, ordered their gaping barrels pointed directly at the truck and Captain Wreckwell. Says Wreckwell: "I always thought the hole of a .45 automatic was the biggest thing in the world until I looked down a 155." Wreckwell and his men held fast behind their own recoilless rifles, ordered circling U.S. jets to make threatening low passes over the Vietnamese. After a few passes, the Vietnamese decided to pack up and pull back...
First warning of trouble to come was the muffled clomp of steel biting into earth as entrenching tools signaled the fact that the enemy was digging in near the camp's wire. Then a white phosphorus mortar shell exploded inside A Shau, and the valley night erupted in recoilless cannon and machine-gun fire, the flash of shells and burning buildings. All night long the enemy poured fire into the compound. Daylight brought dive bombers to the aid of the besieged defenders, though the clouds hung so low that enemy antiaircraft guns were often firing down on allied planes...
...island of Semirara, 180 miles south of Manila in the Tablas Strait, and marines wading ashore at the village of Capipisa on Luzon's south coast in strikes against isolated lairs where outlaws for years have operated with impunity. He has ordered the navy to use its recoilless-rifle-equipped hydrofoils to chase down, -or shoot up-smugglers' boats. He has also reshuffled the constabulary for greater effectiveness, appointed a new customs chief, called for stiffer penalties for smugglers and suspended the director of prisons after learning that about 50 prisoners had recently walked out of Philippine prisons...