Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force, operated a Link trainer in India during World War II. Mike preferred the sea. As a quartermaster in the U.S. merchant marine in World War II he served on tankers, Liberty ships and troop transports, survived a German submarine attack that blew up half his convoy...
...502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
...CONVOY (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A World War II drama series...
...allowed to fall. Out of Pleiku, 40 miles to the northeast, rolled a three-mile-long column of South Vietnamese Rangers, marines, elite infantry and engineers, led by tanks and armored personnel carriers. They represented half of the country's strategic reserve. To old hands, the convoy seemed ominously reminiscent of the days before Dienbienphu, when just such relief columns led and manned by French troops had been gobbled up by the Viet Minh. Four miles from Due Co, the Communists struck hard, and the South Vietnamese column backed off at nightfall into a mile-square defense. Then from...
Like some ponderous snake, the long convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku. Along the edge of the narrow road were massive craters. To clear the V.C. from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled...