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punji stake

Punji sticks were sometimes deployed in the preparation of an ambush.

Spikes known as Punji sticks were hidden in grassy areas.

At the bottom of the pit, a sharpened Punji stick would be hammered in.

He was already taking an antibiotic for dysentery, and no ill effects from the punji stick were seen.

The punji sticks were often dipped in animal excrement as a form of poison.

Punji sticks are usually deployed in substantial numbers.

Punji sticks were also used in Vietnam to complement various defenses, such as barbed wire.

As the group is escaping, Professor triggers the reset punji sticks, and he and the son are killed by them.

The presence of punji sticks may be camouflaged by natural undergrowth, crops, grass, brush or similar materials.

He resides in a stucco mansion protected by punji sticks and claymore mines.

Lifting it up, he finds a Punji stick trap underneath and considers trying to jump over it.

As the situation became more hopeless, they sent in more American flesh to be ambushed and pierced with punji sticks.

Boar escapes the house, but triggers a tripwire on his way out, and is impaled by punji sticks.

"What's next - punji sticks, claymore mines, bouncing betties?"

Died after stepping on a Punji stick while leading an unauthorized patrol in Vietnam while acting as an officer courier.

The Punji stick or Punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake.

Yet, such claims were based on estimates of casualties caused by command-detonated mines, punji sticks and other booby traps, and proved to be wildly inaccurate.

Kleiss ejects from his jet and lands in the jungle, where he attempts to bribe Anna into taking the jeep behind her, only to be impaled by a spring-loaded Punji stick trap.

Punji sticks were not necessarily meant to kill the person who stepped on it; rather, they were designed to wound the enemy and slow or halt his unit while the victim was evacuated to a medical facility.

While Kirby and the group advance through the woods to the LZ for the helicopters to pick them up, Petersen is killed by an enemy booby-trap when he is gorily impaled to a trap of punji sticks.

For special weapons, the punji stakes were tested against the Flammenwerfer 41.

I snapped the pole from his hand and threw it into the punji stakes ringing our perimeter.

Avoid streams and moats in an inhabited area; they may contain punji stakes.

The bottom was filled with Nam-type sharpened punji stakes pointing upward.

As it developed, punji stakes were sharpened, but they were taken out of camp to be used elsewhere.

They did not speak again until they reached the first man trap, pausing to rest after going around the hidden punji stakes.

What was needed was a concrete or rubble wall and a moat filled with punji stakes.

The gooks prepared their ambushes, sometimes days before, planting mines and punji stakes along the trail.

The soldier leads on through the jungle, but quickly falls into a Punji Stake pit, which kills him.

The team digs a hole at one of the entrances to the cave, filling it with punji stakes, and Sarah finds them.

We speculated about the purpose of the trench and decided it was to be a moat for punji stakes surrounding the camp as a barrier.

Punji stakes, poisoned arrows, and spear guns were manufactured exclusively by noncombatants, often young children.

A wide variety of anti-personnel ordnance and booby traps were used in the Vietnam war, including punji stakes.

They used demoralising tactics such as mutilating captives, employed punji stakes, and made surprise night attacks.

The Punji stick or Punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake.

I had picked up and hidden one of the long, straight stakes the guards had sharpened a short time before to be used as punji stakes.

Scott tried to pick out the smoothest, most level area of debris in the wicked minefield of protruding branches and punji stakes below.

The snare flung him through the air like a rag doll and impaled him on a bed of sharpened bamboo punji stakes.

Punji stakes Bamboo spikes emplaced as booby traps by the Viet Cong.

There were also the ever-present booby traps to take their toll of the American troops, as well as punji stakes and malaria, but very little actual fighting.

Three slight WIAs were sustained from punji stakes when the elements combat assaulted the FSB, which had been abandoned since 7 April.

Booby traps, punji stakes, pitfalls, man trapsnot all would translate effectively to this temperate and open environment of rolling downs and lush grass, but the objective was to slow the Corrinians, not stop them.

Amid strong resistance, the Australians were made to fight their way through the maze of bunkers, punji stakes and booby traps but they were eventually able to force a Viet Cong regional force company to withdraw as they continued their advance.

The speed and power of their growth is alarming, the forms they adopt as bizarre and varied as those of deep-sea organisms, and all of them, he supposes, are as dangerous to an airplane as punji stakes to a barefoot pedestrian.