Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
...Grabowski, 21, Illinois, 6 ft. 2 in., 219 lbs. A guileless, straight-ahead power runner, Grabowski broke Red Grange's 40-year-old school ground-gaining record at Illinois. That was enough to make him the A.F.L.'s No. 1 draft choice. The consensus: "The top ball carrier in the Big Ten. Durable, never gets hurt. Has been the primary target of every team he has faced in the last two years, but still crunches out the yardage...
...sign up. Immediate relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave-save only military-age youths and possibly some technicians Castro wants to hang on to. By week's end the U.S. had asked Pan American to act as carrier, and Castro workmen were enlarging and improving the Varadero airport. Camarioca, said Castro, was being closed to all exile boats from Florida. Those boats already in port -and there were more than 100 of them-were to load up and shove off immediately...
Goodbye, SAM. No one could say, however, that U.S. aircraft were not active and to a considerable degree effective. Though the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex remained inviolate, American planes kept up their interdictory hammering of roads, rail lines and military posts. A flight of Navy Skyhawks from the carrier Independence took out the third of some 20 Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched...
Some 400 of the daily strike planes are based aboard the carriers of Task Force 77 of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet. The two flattops on "Yankee Station" shoot their planes off over North Viet Nam, while the "Dixie Station" carrier normally hits only V.C. in the south. The 30 ships, 400 warplanes and 27,000 men of "77" are not included in the 145,000-man total of forces now in Viet Nam. But they are very much a part of the war, and not merely of the air war. When U.S. Marines systematically took apart...