Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western Central Highlands around the town, six North Vietnamese regiments with a total strength of some 17,000 men have been bivouacked for months. Some 20,000 soldiers of the U.S. 4th Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade have been guarding the area, which includes the major U.S. base of Pleiku. This is the time of year when the rainy season comes to an end around Dak To-and the Communists dry off and come out fighting. Their plan had been to drive eastward from the border to seize the town of Dak To, then try to sweep southeastward...
Chaotic-or even anarchic-as that answer may seem, it is the base of U.S. patriotism. At the end of the 18th century, nothing was more quixotic than trying to nationalize 13 hostile colonies, assorted religious sects, and 2,500,000 individualists. The colonists were so unimpressed by the Revolution that one-third of them sided with Britain. At Valley Forge, George Washington wrote that patriotic idealism could not inspire his ragged, ill-trained army, that it must be toughened by "a prospect of interest or some reward." He meant cash. Only well after victory did the shaky American nation...
...government's retinue and his guests from abroad off to a reception in the Independence Palace. Afterward, he came back to the Assembly to address the nation's new Senate and House, offering them "mutual respect and sympathy" and inviting them to join him in broadening the base of South Vietnamese democracy. That night Thieu happily cut a six-foot-high red and yellow cake at a state banquet at the palace...
...nothing to do with it, but it was fitting all the same that the Air Force chose the middle of the football season to announce that Lieut. Colonel Felix Blanchard, 42, has been assigned as an F-105 pilot to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Air Base in Thailand. Two decades after he ended his rampaging career as fullback on Army's undefeated teams of 1944-46, three times making All-America, the Doc still ranks as West Point's greatest power runner. But he has also built himself a reputation as an equally skilled flyer...
...longer you stay up destroying other aircraft in time of battle," mused Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 48, "the luckier you've got to be." By that measure, the retiring commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at New York's Suffolk County Air Force Base is the luckiest man in the air. Though it has been 15 years since his last combat mission, the Colonel is still the nation's top-ranked living combat ace, with 371 kills to his credit from World War II and Korea. Gabreski is leaving the Air Force...