Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept laying the fire in," says Navy Lieut. Augustine Marana, 37, "and just chopped the trees down." The fight raged on into the night by the light of flares," and the next day 250 of the Viet Cong's 300-man force were dead. The U.S. lost...
...girls, who are 17 and up, become pregnant while on active duty, they get two months' leave and a maternity benefit of $2.25. Eventually they are expected to graduate into the ranks of the Viet Cong proper, an estimated 10% of whom are women. Last week U.S. Marine Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt reported that in some parts of South Viet Nam, as much as 29% of the Viet Cong guerrilla force is female...
...hurried around the country, recruiting support from top generals, impressing the populace with displays of calculated generosity, and keeping his name in the headlines by demanding that 140,000 more U.S. troops should be sent to South Viet Nam. At the same time, his most serious rival, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu, who is Chief of State, formally declared that he is a candidate and began campaigning...
When it comes to exciting the citizenry, Flag Day usually ranks somewhere between Arbor Day and groundhog day, but Denver managed to come up with a bit of the old whoop and whistle last week. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as Lieut. General Lew Walt, 54, just back from his two-year stint as commanding officer of the Marines in Viet Nam, perched on the rear seat of a 1912 International Autowagon and led a parade of school bands, color guards, flag-waving children and the 70-man Marine Recruit Depot Band. Rousing...
...Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip...