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...third inning, and the 2nd Air Division Cobras held a 6-1 lead over the Advisory Group Support Branch in their night game at Pershing Field, the U.S. military's softball diamond outside Saigon. In the stands, 150 partisan American fans-soldiers, sailors, embassy civilians, wives and children-booed and cheered. Suddenly, two explosions under the stands sent shrapnel slicing through the planking, shearing the leg off a G.I., hurling jagged splinters like missiles into the crowd. Amid the wreckage, two soldiers lay dying, 23 other Americans dazed and injured...
...Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen was (and is) often incompletely quoted to the effect that "every animal is sad after coitus." Actually, as Kinsey pointed out, he had added the qualification, "except the human female and the rooster." Siding with Galen, women claimed not only the right to work and to vote, but the even...
Prison to Prison. Born in Mytho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, Minh graduated from a lycée run by the French, in 1940 enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured...
Ahead of Schedule. Exactly 63 hr. 5 min. after the first Big Lift plane left Texas, a C-130 Hercules touched down at Sembach with the last 60 men of the 2nd Armored, nearly nine hours ahead of schedule. With the last arrivals on hand, the scattered units of the 2nd Armored began assembling for week-long maneuvers at Fulda Gap, a classical invasion route just across the border from Communist East Germany...
These words were underlined by the widely heralded "Operation Big Lift," which hauled the entire 2nd Armored Division from Texas to West Germany, in a dramatic demonstration of the U.S.'s capability to keep troops at home but fly them swiftly to theaters of threatening...