Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lieut. Colonel James R. Hopkins, 42, of Norman. Okla., a veteran of 47 World War 11 missions, 100 Korean War missions and 60 raids over North Viet Nam, led the Air Force pack into Hanoi and admitted that he was as nervous as "a football player going out to play...
...Speak Saroya." Darting in minutes later with only a camera to shoot, Major Hallet P. Marston, 37, of Miami, hit flak so dense that it twice kicked his RF-101 photo-jet into a 90° bank. A veteran of 101 Korean reconnaissance missions and 78 photo flights over North Viet Nam, Marston reported that he had "never run into more intense, aimed fire. When I varied, the fire varied." Nor did the flak let up until the attackers ducked behind a mountain ridge on the way home-after running a 60-mile flak alley leading away from the capital...
Diplomatically, Klein saw the decision to drop the bomb as a wrong one. He cited the lesson of the Korean War where we leveled the North without moving our opponents any nearer to the peace table. As for the timing of the escalation, Klein speculated that it was a domestic move on Johnson's behalf, and that the President feels this is the "tidy war" the Gallup Polls favor...
...aggression assumes that the war originates in the North, Craig said. There is obviously infiltration from the North, but the war, until very recently, has been primarily a civil war in South Vietnam. Craig implied that the slogan funds to distort the picture and make it appear a Korean like situation...
...then shelled by first one army and then another in the march and countermarch of Viet Nam's wars. Only last fall Saigon troops recaptured the hamlet after it had been in Viet Cong hands for six months. Tau Nghia's fortunes abruptly changed. First the Korean Tiger Division arrived and set up its headquarters in nearby Qui Nhon, providing a visible and powerful shield of security. And last January a 66-man Vietnamese pacification team rolled in to bring Tau Nghia back to life...