Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over North and South Viet...
...federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Flying Tiger Line was liable in the deaths of 107 persons lost in 1962 between Guam and the Philippines on a charter Super-Constellation because the crew had inadequate sleeping quarters during the long flight. The judge also decided that Flying Tiger was not protected by the Warsaw Convention's maximum liability ($8,300 per passenger) because the travelers had not been issued tickets warning them, in the fine print, of the Warsaw limit...
...eighth time in the war, Guam-based B-52s roared in to plaster the Demilitarized Zone above the 17th parallel, this time in support of a 1,500-man Marine sweep south of the DMZ. Storming ashore from amphibious landing craft and coming to earth in choppers, the Marines met no significant contact, by week's end had killed only 30 Reds-a sharp contrast to their operation in the DMZ last July when 824 Communists were cornered and killed...
...troubles they must overcome before landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth. The practice paid off handsome ly. From its improbably precise launch, made within a tiny, two-second "win dow" of time, to its all-but-perfect splashdown 21 miles from the recovery carrier Guam, Gemini 11 proved to be an able instructor indeed...
...Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American men and materiel into the area. The thick new strip will be the only one in the region designed to support the B-52 bombers, which now fly 5,200-mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present plans to make U-Tapao a full-time B-52 base, the huge birds may well use the new nest as a turn-around point from where they could rearm or refuel...