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...Artagnan mustache. An able infantryman who enjoyed the challenge and camaraderie of military life, he was popular with the troops, who called him "Brother Rock." He gave each soldier a silver dollar for Christmas, and woolens knitted by Mother Rockefeller and her friends. The 77th went through the Guam and Leyte campaigns, and Rockefeller became a major on the 305th Regimental staff...
...Ninh 65 miles northwest of Saigon, the enemy last week pulled his oft-employed disappearing act and was virtually nowhere to be found. The 16,000 men of Operation Attleboro, largest of the war, continued the hunt, aided by daily strikes at suspected base camps and depots by Guam-based B-52 bombers and fighter-bomber sorties that passed the 1,000 level. Attleboro continued to turn up Red rice in huge quantities, by last week had garnered a record 2,366 tons, could claim over 1,000 soldiers of the Viet Cong 9th Division and the North Vietnamese 101st...
...large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman at Dunkirk and a U.S. Marine sergeant on Guam. By far the best value is found in the 720 pictures (92 in color), which capture the events from the Treaty of Versailles to the rise of Hitler to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri...
...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...