Word: cam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While reporters and photographers were at work, so was Cover Artist Henry Koerner, whose difficult assignment was to express the determined U.S. presence in a painting. For five days, he hopped from Bien Hoa to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Qui Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...Other troops required to bring the U.S. force in Viet Nam to 125,000 in the immediate future would be selected from inbeing units. Last week 3,700 paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division-better known as the "Screaming Eagles"-landed at South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh...
...Into Cam Ranh Bay on South Viet Nam's bulging east coast slipped a grey-hulled U.S. troop transport, its decks aswarm with the "Screaming Eagles" of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division. Sentries on the dock paced impassively, their faces shadowed under their helmet liners, their M-14 rifles riding taut from the slings. As the transport neared the dock, a cry went up from the 3,700 paratroopers: "Take a break! We're here!" The sentries, like veterans anywhere, smiled knowingly...
Governor Peabody was contacted and he pledged his support, but only after the election, since he was courting the support of McCann and Rep. John I. Toomey (D-Cam.) then chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee an ardent underpass advocate...