Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the blips were about three miles off, Turner Joy began firing, using her radar as guide, since nothing could be seen. Maddox followed suit-though her radar showed no target at all. Says Lieut. Raymond Connell, in charge of Maddox's guns: "I recall we were hopping around up there, trying to figure out what they [Turner Joy] were shooting at. We fired a lot of rounds, but it was strictly a defensive tactic." It could also have been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time...
...blamed for not being able to keep the Viet Cong out of the cities in the first place-and then for having to devastate wide areas to get rid of the enemy. Who lost the more remains to be seen. "It depends," says the I Corps U.S. commander, Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., "on how fast the government provides assistance to rebuild homes, offices, roads and bridges...
South Vietnamese in rooting out the NVA, who reportedly were being guided and fed by Hué students. In the twisting alleyways of the old city, digging out the Communists turned out to be a tough task. After two days of combat, President Thieu phoned ARVN I Corps Commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam and demanded that he get Hué back in allied hands?and "get it back fast...
...Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. knew how to get it back fast, but only at the cost of reducing it to ruins, and turning much of Viet Nam's heritage to crumbled stone. So the Skyraiders, wheeling and diving over Hué in support of the allied counterattack, at first used only guns and rockets no larger than 2.5 in. in order to protect the city's buildings and royal tombs and monuments. When after four days the Communists still held more than half the city, heritage was reluctantly sacrificed to necessity and the bombs loosed on the Citadel...
...their first look at Nigeria's rebellious state. Though Biafra hired a Hollywood public relations man to organize the trip, TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, who went along, learned enough on his own by moving around the country, talking with Biafrans and Europeans and interviewing Biafra's leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, to reach a few surprising conclusions. He found that the Ibo-the region's majority tribe-are not only vigorously and successfully resisting invading federal Nigerian troops, but are maintaining high morale and a surprising amount of normalcy while doing...