Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tricky combat terrain, U.S. troops have to develop all types of tricky tactics. A 32-man reconnaissance company of the 9th Cavalry Regiment has a new technique for getting out of their helicopters even before they land. In unsecured areas where the enemy may be lying in wait, the troops clamber out on the skids, and as the chopper flutters down to five or six feet above the landing area, they jump. They call themselves the "Headhunters...
Diminishing Numbers. Next morning Leoni sent hundreds of combat-equipped national police troopers storming into the previously inviolate campus of Caracas' Central University, which has long served as a haven for Red activists. A cacophony of student jeers, punctuated by sniper shots, greeted the police, but they quickly seized all key university buildings and began a search for arms and Reds, while a battalion of regular army troops threw a cordon around the campus. It was a rich haul: some 800 suspects, including the 15 leaders of the Communist youth organization and a number of wanted criminals...
...62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice to the general. He can also be relied upon to use no fresh trope when...
Only a computer could master his tremendous achievements during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, when the number of active Army divisions all but doubled, air combat groups almost tripled, and U.S. troop strength overseas rose from 192,000 to a million-the first of 8,000,000. Marshall had commanded a company in the Philippines and won commendations for coolness, and later for tactical brilliance in maneuvers. His equally cool competence in staff work became his great asset...
...during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights on a starless night...