Normal life was severely disrupted and casualties began to rise.

Presently their spears were falling among us and a few casualties began to occur, not many, because of the protecting wall, but still some.

The rate at which the security forces took casualties began to climb and morale concurrently dropped.

Then casualties from the 1/ Battalion began passing through us.

The casualties from that hit had just begun to come in.

"These casualties are beginning to unnerve Americans, and it concerns me," he added.

The city fell into turmoil, bodies littered the streets, and the casualties began to rise.

Support would almost certainly erode, not increase, once American casualties began mounting.

By afternoon military and civilian casualties began arriving in its two hospitals.

Visibility was limited by rain, and Australian casualties soon began to mount.