Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honolulu and all the way to Washington. Yet there were some unaccountable lapses. At Yokosuka, Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson got the messages quickly enough, but he knew that there were no naval aircraft available to help Pueblo. He turned at once to the Air Force's Lieut. General Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief of the Fifth Air Force, which has half a dozen bases in both Japan and South Korea. McKee, too, was strapped, for whatever planes were available were either unequipped or out of range for any rescue mission...
About eight hours after Pueblo was towed into Wonsan, the Pentagon released word of her capture. In Yokosuka, the pregnant wife of Pueblo's executive officer, Lieut. Edward R. Murphy, heard about it from a neighbor, who heard it from her radio. As for the wounded crewmen, the Pentagon could not say which of Pueblo's complement of six officers, 75 enlisted men and two civilian hydrographers had been injured...
...Napoleonic wars, when a British man o' war overtook the U.S.S. Chesapeake, searched her for deserters and shanghaied four seamen. An even more dramatic depredation occurred in 1804, four months after Barbary pirates captured the grounded U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor and clapped her crewmen into prison. Lieut. Stephen ("Our country, right or wrong") Decatur sailed into the port aboard a vessel disguised as a blockade-runner from Malta, boarded Philadelphia and, with a crew of 84, routed the 200 Tripolitan crewmen who had been put aboard. Decatur set Philadelphia ablaze, and just as his aptly named Intrepid...
Gehlen turns over to his hand-picked successor, Lieut. General Gerhard Wessel, 54, an organization of 3,500 full-time employees that ranks after the CIA and Britain's MI-6 as the free world's most ubiquitous intelligence service. Though he will slip into retirement as furtively as he conducted his operations, Gehlen can take some pride in the fact that his reputation for omniscience has entered the German language. In response to an unanswerable question, a West German is likely to reply, "Das weiss nur der Gehlen" (Only Gehlen knows that...
...reflecting the manpower strains that brought on North Viet Nam's full military mobilization in mid-1966. Only two years ago, the average North Vietnamese regular in the South was a 23-year-old volunteer. Even so, the 1968 infiltrator remains well motivated, trained, armed and led. Says Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army in Viet Nam: "He is a formidable adversary and as good as any soldier I've come up against...