Word: heinl
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...Marine Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. impatiently waved his heavy swagger stick one day last week as Haitian troops dashed across a drill field in Port-au-Prince and hit the dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
...Past. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. proudly ended a 19-year Marine occupation in Haiti; the return of the Marines is ironical but seemingly vital. Colonel Heinl (Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Korea), Yaleman ('37) and Marine historian, arrived last January with red mustache, pith helmet and fluent French to find the Haitian army in horrifying shape...
...coffin containing the body of the daughter of President Alexandre Petion (1808-18). But he also found old blue ceremonial uniforms in the army warehouses and soon fielded a band that gives rousing renditions of the Marines' Hymn, plus a passable version of the Haitian anthem. More important, Heinl's 40-man team taught the troops how to get from bunks to battle stations all over town in 30 minutes flat...