Word: 47s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fateful Vacation. He went on to build more houses, buy apartments, acquire theaters and take over the regional Wurlitzer jukebox distributorship. By the time World War II hit, Wilson was rich. But he sold out everything for $250,000, joined the Air Transport Command and piloted C-47s over the Himalayan hump, probably the hairiest air route of the war. After being mustered out, he bought an Orange Crush distributorship, but it soured, and he lost $100,000. So he went back to construction and built a fortune of about $1,000,000, all the while sharpening his skills...
...heavier than the others. "Everyone else had nice dainty underwear in their suitcases, and here I got twelve bottles of booze." She served in Casablanca, Algiers and for 13 months on Corsica, getting to know a lot of military airmen. She claims that she "used to fly P-47s sitting on the pilot...
Continued the Premier: "What we are asking for now is arms." So far, the U.S. has supplied about 50,000 old American rifles and 10,000 captured AK-47s. Washington has quadrupled its arms aid to $40 million, but Cambodians say they need five times that amount to equip and train a 200,000-man army by 1971. The U.S. is unwilling to comply. Lon Nol hopes that other nations will help, but additional aid to date has come only from Thailand, South Viet Nam and Australia, which donated 50 Land Rovers and radios and ponchos...
There were two of them, both with Chinese-made AK-47s. They looked Cambodian. I waved and drove past. They waved back. Seconds later, their costumes registered: they were dressed in black, and their helmets were camouflaged with leaves and small branches. They seemed as surprised to see me as I was to see them. They might run. I turned the car and started slowly back down the road. Then, 300 yards away, the soldiers appeared again, this time out on the road itself, signaling that I stop. I pulled off the road. They came, guns at the ready...
...automobile tire. The North Vietnamese soldier who presented them to me told me they were "sandals of the Resistance." Then, with a grin, he whispered, "Gap Ho Chi Minh." They even began leaving their weapons around my room while they went on their errands-knives, carbines, AK-47s, Chinese-made grenades. I was astonished...