Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But next day 1,200 Red troops invaded Binhgia, a prosperous, palm-shaded agricultural community only 40 miles southeast of Saigon. Setting up headquarters in the village church, after first shooting off its crucifix, the Reds opened up with deadly fire on 1,000 counterattacking Rangers and Marines. Air-dropped...
Last week demo was the sport in Indonesia, where for the second time in as many weeks a fun-loving mob-egged on by the nation's powerful Communist Party-ravaged a United States Information Service library, ostensibly in protest against the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission in the...
There had been notime yet to provide coffins. U.S. Ambassador George Mc-Murtrie Godley watched two marines drape the Stars and Stripes over the body of Dr. Paul Carlson. Someone had taken a New Testament from Carlson's pocket, to be sent to his wife.
Chafee himself, a product of Providence Country Day School and Deerfield Academy, left Yale at 19 during his sophomore year, enlisted in the Marines and landed with assault troops on Guadalcanal. Back in the U.S., he finished Yale and Harvard Law. In 1951 he was recalled to the Marines and...
marines and 2,000 Spanish marines were deployed. High atop a yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an...