Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, a Navy Grumman aircraft on antisubmarine patrol from the carrier Lake Champlain crashed at sea, killing all four crewmen.* Change of Plans. Navy admirals grumbled that they needed faster transport vessels; they had been able to move across the Atlantic at a top speed of only 14 knots. But they proudly pointed out that they had put 28,000 men ashore at a cost of $10,300,000, given them enough supplies to fight self-sufficiently for nearly a month. The Air Force's Operation Big Lift in October 1963 had required $20 million to fly some...
Viet Cong ground fire from captured U.S. .50-cal. machine guns knocked the helicopter into a blazing heap, and black-clad Communist guerrillas finished the job. Five American crewmen and their Vietnamese observer died. It was the sixth helicopter crash of the week, and it brought the toll of Americans killed in action over the 200 mark...
...Sierra Aranzazu approached Cuba in the late evening hours, two small, fast boats swooped down on the vessel and raked it with repeated machine-gun bursts at a range of 20 to 30 yards. The captain and two crewmen were mortally wounded. The rest of the crew abandoned ship, which was now on fire. Fourteen hours after the attack, the lifeboat carrying all 20 crew members, eight of them wounded, two dead and one soon to die, was spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard plane, and a Dutch freighter sped to their rescue, carrying them to Great Inagua...
...hurricane to regroup. When it did, it changed direction to a more northerly course, was thus only 200 miles from the Florida coast when the hurricane trackers spotted Cleo again. Flying into the storm's eye, one tracking plane was buffeted so badly that seven of its crewmen were injured...
...driven by the wind, Shields is not for him, and he is not for Shields. As a Johnny-come-lately to ocean racing (in 1946), Shields was appalled to find that on the 635-mile course from Newport to Bermuda, which takes four to six days, skippers allowed their crewmen to relax. Not Shields. He insisted on enforcing the same tense, split-second discipline that he knew from racing for a couple of hours around three buoys in Long Island Sound. The wonder is that Captain Bligh Shields had no mutiny. But by then he had won, along with...