Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kansas City 12, Washington 10 (1st...
Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3 (1st...
...movement of the 1st Armored and other military activities during the Cuban crisis were disclosed last week as the Pentagon relaxed the security clampdown that had prevailed for a month and a half...
...Were Prepared." All the while, the buildup continued for a possible invasion. The Tactical Air Command airlifted more than 18,000 tons of equipment to staging areas in the southeastern U.S. Besides the 1st Armored...
...prepared to throw in the 1st and 2nd infantry divisions, the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions, some 12,000 marines and more than 1,000 aircraft. Says a top-ranking admiral of the invasion plans: "We were prepared to execute an operation that would have compared in scope with the largest of World War II." It was that, plus the poised threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation against Russia, that undoubtedly caused Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban adventure...