Word: guam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assault began in two main strikes. At 5:36 a.m. on Tuesday, some 400 Marines aboard troop helicopters from the amphibious assault ship Guam roared into Pearls airport, the island's only functioning airstrip. Thirty-six minutes later, hundreds of U.S. Rangers, the Army's elite special forces, parachuted onto the barricaded, uncompleted 10,000-ft. strip at Point Salines on Grenada's southeastern tip. They had been dispatched from a staging airfield in Barbados, just 160 miles, or 45 minutes, away. Grenada, the once sleepy tourist haven, barely 80 miles off Venezuela in the Caribbean...
...believed to have fled into the mountains with his hard-core followers. But on Saturday a Marine detachment found the long-missing Coard in a guarded house in St. George's. Said he of the Bishop murder before he was whisked off to the Guam: "I'm not responsible. I'm not responsible...
...lecture hall and in a library. They helped a score of wounded Grenadians and Cubans. The U.S. wounded were also given first aid. But morphine to relieve pain was running low. An outdoor basketball court was turned into a helicopter pad to lift the wounded to the Guam or to hospital facilities elsewhere. Recalled Student Paula Prezioso of Great Neck, N.Y.: "One minute we'd be under a desk, the next up looking for a Coke, the next treating some Cuban sniper. Then back under a desk...
...Tuesday afternoon, the Guam moved to the west coast of the island. The enemy troops had grouped in a significant force north of St. George's. They held Fort Frederick and were assumed to be holding hostages at Richmond Hill prison, on high ground east of the capital. From the Guam, 250 Marines boarded 13 amphibious vehicles, carrying five tanks, and stormed ashore at Grand Mai Bay north of the city. They began moving south, while the paratroopers headed north toward the capital in a pincer movement...
...Wednesday that the Marines were able to overcome troops besieging the Governor General's mansion and join the Seals who were inside it. Scoon and 32 civilians with him asked to be taken out of Grenada for their own protection. They were carried by helicopter to the Guam...