Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIEUT. GENERAL ROBERT HACKETT Commanding General Army Air Defense Command Colorado Springs, Colo...
...LIEUT. PETER K. VAN WINKLE 69th Infantry N.Y.A.N.G. Manhattan...
...America Response. Minutes after the attack started, nearly every American officer was either wounded or dead. Among the dead was the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Terry de la Mesa Allen Jr., 38, whose father had commanded the Big Red One in its World War II drive from Tunisia to Sicily. At a temporary base camp one mile away, the battalion operations officer heard the firefight and hesitated not a moment. With the agility that made him an All-America end at West Point in 1954, Major Donald W. Holleder, 33, raced toward the furious action and rallied a group...
...DISENGAGEMENT. The most extreme move would be a precipitous pullout, which few besides those on the extremist fringe see as a possible solution. A more gradual form of disengagement would be to concentrate U.S. forces in coastal enclaves, as proposed by retired Lieut. General James Gavin. In effect, the enclave solution would amount to a phased withdrawal, leaving most of South Viet Nam to the mercy of the Communists...
Rampage of Death. For Lieut. Colonel Ojukwu and his Ibos, the beginning of the end came, oddly enough, partly as the result of a considerable initial victory. Last August, in a lightning attack, Ojukwu's forces swept westward out of Biafra and captured Nigeria's oil-rich Midwestern state. But the drive left Ojukwu's 7,000 troops stretched dangerously thin over 39,000 sq. mi. Rather than strike back, Gowon quietly built his troop strength to 42,000 men and kept adding heavy arms, ammunition and jet planes, which Ojukwu could ill afford. Then, two weeks...