Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three more months of Communications and Methods of Instruction at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Sloan volunteered for Vietnam but instead was shipped to Munsan-ni, Korea because he didn't have the rank to get to Vietnam. After nine months in Korea and a promotion to SP4, Sloan again volunteered for Vietnam and finally made it to Can Tho in the Mekong by April...
...there they were. First laying down a mortar barrage, the 272nd skillfully used bangalore torpedoes to blow big gaps in the six layers of barbed wire that surround Bo Due's two interconnected forts. Then, charging in mindless waves, the V.C. managed to reach one of the forts. Using homemade bamboo ladders that they had carried with them, they scaled the walls and captured the fort. Their victory was short-lived. While 250 South Vietnamese defenders fought back, U.S. advisers called in artillery strikes from two miles away, brought in planes to bombard the V.C. The Communists left behind...
...American occupants. With suicidal intensity reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk up another 20 Viet Cong dead, plus many bodies that would be found at the end of trails of blood leading away from the camp...
...fellows in my outfit feel the same way." The most painful impact of death, of course, is on the survivors, and Survivor John Guinn-who has already died once in Viet Nam-will probably not have to go back. After a 30-day leave he will be reassigned to Fort Bragg, N.C. Meanwhile, Quinn Tichenor was taken to Louisville for reburial...
...atresia-a congenital absence of bile ducts. This behaves for all practical purposes like a malignancy, and usually proves fatal within 18 months. Since construction of a normal route for the bile was impossible in these cases, the Starzl team did transplants for Paula Kay Hansen, aged 2, of Fort Worth; Kerri Lynn Brown, 16 months, of Long Beach, Calif.; and Carol Lynne Macourt, 16 months, of Salt Lake City...