Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM G. GUSHING 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) South Viet...
BARRY F. WESTFALL 1st Lieutenant, U.S.M.C.R. Phu Bai, South Viet...
...CAPT.) FRANCIS T. COLEMAN Legal Assistance Officer 1st Marine Division Chu Lai, South Viet...
Next door in the teeming Negro wards of the South Side's 1st District, another organization antique, Negro Congressman William L. ("The Man") Dawson, 80, seeking a 13th term, was opposed by Negro Social Worker Fred Hubbard, 37. Though Dawson was the favorite, Hubbard was expected to make a strong showing, partly out of sympathy because he was shot in the shoulder during the campaign by an unknown sniper. He was hurt politically even worse by Dawson, who was reelected...
...avoid the heavy casualties of an uphill infantry assault, U.S. commanders devised a wily plan. While the men of the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) stood back, poised to pounce, 900 tear gas grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar...