Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons having nothing to do with France and its obligations to the alliance. None of that would force us to declare war, but it would make us a target for atomic bombs." In fact, Pompidou believes that the U.S. concept of flexible response might well turn Europe into a battlefield for U.S. and Russian weapons and thus "limit the area for atomic war to spare Russian and American territory. What we have against this doctrine is that it is specifically conceived as a function of the American geographical situation." The U.S. might get 15 minutes' notice of any missile...
...Chances. In the weeks of internecine squabbling, the allies had clearly lost their gathering momentum both on the military front and in the drive to bring social and economic reform to the villages. As for the hard battlefield cost, opinion was divided. Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., the U.S. Pacific commander, thought that in spite of the turmoil, "we are doing quite well." Less sanguine officers closer to the conflict noted a sharp drop in South Vietnamese operations. One result was that for the first time in the war, U.S. combat deaths for a one-week period (ending April...
...those songs which, although unconnected with the war effort, become popular anyway and are ever after associated with the period, like Lili Marlene, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me), and Mairzy Doats. And, finally, there is the hinky-dinky-parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter. D-Day Dodgers, and that...
...fire was so heavy that for nearly a day in one paddy area the marines had to forget their hallowed rule that no body be left on the battlefield. As the marines fought toward the 36th's command post, they met machine-gun nests so tightly held that only flamethrowers could knock them out. But in the end, the 36th was decimated, with over 600 confirmed dead and perhaps as many again killed but uncounted, while allied casualties were "light...
...Donald Duncan, a former master sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces, who was the star of the evening with his biting behind-the-scenes picture of the Vietnamese battlefield...