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When a nine-man infantry squad set out one night this month to lay an ambush for the Viet Cong near the Bao Trai airstrip in the northern coastal region of South Viet Nam, Paul Widtfeldt Jr., an unarmed medical specialist, went along. Next morning, nine of the ten men were found shot through the head. Among them was redhaired, bespectacled Medic Widtfeldt, who had been killed while tending a dying buddy. For his courage, the Army revealed last week, Widtfeldt, 21, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be posthumously awarded a second Bronze Star; his first was presented in August...
...Governor was away. The plane took longer than expected to get to Port Stanley. And at the last moment, somebody remembered that there was no airstrip anywhere in the islands. So the terrified pilot had to do his best in the mud of a seldom used race track. When the shaken conspirators emerged from the plane, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of curious islanders, none of whom spoke enough Spanish to understand that they had been conquered by the Argentines...
...group ing along the DMZ to join the 324B when the rains come. To meet the pos sibility of a major offensive, the Ma rines have moved five battalions up to the border, transformed a remote out post at Dong Ha into a major base, complete with airstrip and facilities...
...only thing she knew how to do. She put a sign in front of her house and started cooking. Now her 125-seat Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn is one of Central Florida's greatest attractions. Fly-in diners can land on an 1,800-ft. turf airstrip and her famous soups sell for 690 a can in markets all over the world...
...dark hours of a May morning 21 years ago, the twelve fighters of Katsura Squadron roared off the Ozuki airstrip for assignment to a suicide mission. For the 16-year-old local Tabe High School girls, whose part in the war had been to wash down the planes, it was the end of an idyllic spring with the young second lieutenants. As one of the moonstruck maintenance girls remembered, when the squadron got its orders, "We felt like the wives of samurai sent off to battle in old Japan...