Word: battalions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Korean atrocities were reviewed. A Lower House Deputy, Nguyen Cong Hoang, one of the representatives of Phu Yen province, had prompted an official investigation several weeks ago into a My Lai-type massacre that reportedly occurred in his province on July 31. On that day, troops of the First Battalion of the "Tiger" Division's 26th Regiment were conducting a mopping-up operation. As the troops passed near Phu Long hamlet, they were fired upon by small arms. A platoon leader and a sergeant were killed. The Koreans dug in and, with the approval of the district chief, called...
...dawn last Tuesday," reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, "an army patrol in the Turf Lodge area brought in what looked like much of the arms stock of C Company, 1st Battalion of the I.R.A.'s Belfast Brigade, complete with a framed coat of arms giving the company commander's nom de guerre as Martin Forsythe. A patrol had entered the house on Norglen Crescent shortly after 2 a.m. A boy opened the door and immediately admitted that arms were hidden inside. Sure enough, twelve rifles were neatly stacked in a cupboard, and about 6,000 rounds of ammunition...
Thus, with a low key ceremony, the last sizable army combat unit remaining in Viet Nam stood down last week-officially, if not entirely in fact. Though the 3rd was mustered out, one of its three battalions will remain behind. The 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, will form the nucleus of a force of 2,000 or more men named Task Force Garry Owen. The troops will help protect the Bien Hoa-Saigon-Long Binh area. That is basically the job of the 3rd Brigade, except that now, as the task force's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Walker...
Some storeowners are going to board up their windows. A battalion of National Guardsmen has canceled summer maneuvers to remain on stand-by call. Doctors, fearing the worst, have called for increased ambulance service and emergency supplies of drugs, cots, chairs, tables, tents, huts, trailers and walkie-talkies. One survival-minded citizens' group, The Miami Snowplow Co., requested $1.7 million worth of canned beef stew, a $1,632 stockpile of disposable diapers and bottles, 1,000 containers of aspirin, 500 instant ice packs and one medium-transport helicopter-but failed to survive as an organization through lack of support...
...Catholics. The soldier's death, moreover, seemed to deepen the split between the I.R.A.'s Marxist-lining Official wing and their rivals, the militant Provisional wing. The Proves publicly demanded that the Officials get out of Londonderry; the Officials responded that the Provisionals were "just an extra battalion of the army...