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...this dark, watery world, the enemy lurks like a predatory pike, seldom visible, forever poised for the kill. Both the black-pajamaed guerrilla and the khaki-uniformed Viet Minh regular from the North have become increasingly sophisticated and determined fighters. At la Drang, Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard, commander of the Army's 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), marveled at the way the Viet Minh hardhats "came boiling off those hills like ants and pushed their attack right through our artillery, tactical air and small-arms fire-in broad daylight. It was eloquent testimony that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...weeks after Johnson's announcement, the first of four supply ships carrying the bulk of the division's 428 helicopters was on its way, and on their heels came the first of the division's 16,000 men, commanded by Major General Harry William Osborn Kinnard. At the same time, an advance party of 1,000 men, 254 tons of equipment and nine "huey" helicopters was quietly whisked to Viet Nam from the division's Fort Benning base in a secret, seven-day airlift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also surprised at the "fanatic patriotism of Americans, the constant harping on the American heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Thirst | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...game started Yale on her series of wins broken only occasionally by a Harvard triumph that extended to 1908, when the late P. D. Hughton '99 took charge of Harvard football destinies. That year V. D. Kinnard '09 delivered the field goal that gave the Crimson the laurels. A defeat came the next year and two scoreless ties followed before the great Haughton system got fairly started on its conquering march that lasted with one half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALF CENTURY OF RIVALRY FINDS YALE IN LEAD, 25 TO 13 | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

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