Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, Garcia-Godoy is determined to do the job of "reconciliation" his way-with one hand on his hot line to the U.S. 82nd Airborne...
...marines and U.S. paratroopers, hauled up in front of Wessin's house near San Isidro. In the cars were Dominican Armed Forces Secretary Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, commander of the OAS peace force, and his deputy, Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, commander of the 82nd Airborne. The brass trooped into the house and trooped out again accompanied by Wessin y Wessin. Two hours later he was on his way to exile...
From the international corridor, a U.S. 82nd Airborne major peered down into the rebel-held section of Santo Domingo. "Our motto," he said dryly, "is 'Out of the trenches by Christmas...
Less than 24 hours later, the city's fragile cease-fire erupted in the bloodiest fighting since the first days of the eight-week-old war. At 8 a.m., a U.S. 82nd Airborne noncom was inspecting weapons along the international corridor when a bullet plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order...
Tanks & Snipers. At an intersection, one of Caamaño's rebel tanks clanked up and fired into an 82nd Airborne command post, tearing off a radioman's leg. The paratroopers turned the tank into a furnace with seven rounds from a 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Near by, a careening rebel scout car ran into a barrage of M-14 fire that wounded two men riding in the rear. "I wasn't ready to start this crap again," muttered a U.S. paratrooper. He then squinted through his rifle sight and started working over a sniper-infested schoolhouse...