Choosing Courage: Vietnam War

5. a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder
8. a body of soldiers
9. a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand
12. a conflict between nations
13. an institution in which sick or injured people are given medical or surgical treatment
15. a tract of wet, spongy land
16. the outer boundary; perimeter
18. to free or deliver from confinement
19. one of a class of naval troops serving both on shipboard and on land.
21. an artificial waterway for navigation
22. antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes
23. a small projectile, part of a cartridge

1. a weapon in which fires projectiles
2. any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings
3. mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers
4. a member or former member of the U.S. armed forces, especially an enlisted soldier
6. any bloodsucking or carnivorous animal that lives in water
7. to remain or continue in existence or use
10. a track of land, especially as considered with its natural features, military advantages
11. an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument
14. the regular throbbing of the arteries
15. a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal
17. to put to sleep
20. a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: