In the book The Green Berets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...ets_%28book%29 there's a story of a raid undertaken by a A-Team and some of their native troops that they were leading in country. One of the objectives was blowing a bridge but the Team Leadership was having a problem planning loads to be carried. They didn't have enough troops to carry all their equipment, including enough explosives to blow the bridge and carry full sandbags to pack the explosives on the bridge. They didn't want to carry empty sandbags and fill them on site because that would have taken too long. Then one of their native troops suggested that they use the dead bodies of the bridge guard force that they had already planned on killing before they could blow the bridge.
So, they did it. They shot the guard company and then used the bodies to pack the three lines of explosives they laid across the top of the bridge. Compared to other methods of blowing it, it was fairly quick to lay out and it worked. Also, the enemy never really figured out where their entire company of guards went to...