Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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marines and light equipment behind theoretical enemy lines. Some 100 Skyhawks and Phantoms flew protective cover as hundreds of amphibious craft lunged toward the yellow sand to discharge their troops. A giant causeway, assembled at sea, was towed ashore by launches. Aircraft even took off from portable aluminum runways laid...
The 65-ft. landing craft that skittered across the water and up a Lake Erie beach last week looked like a product out of science fiction, a warship from some future conflict. Huge fans to port and starboard blasted downward into sand and foam; giant propellers in the stern shoved...
The aluminum Hydroskimmer moves on a thin cushion of air; it gets its lift from the powerful blast of the four turbine-driven fans in the ship's hull. Once the skimmer is balanced on its air cushion, the two propellers in the stern roar into action. Starting from...
(9 of 17) Oswald himself joined the Marines in 1956, he was nicknamed "Ozzie Rabbit" because of his baby face and his reticence in making friends?which was mistaken for shyness. Yet he was twice court-martialed, once for unauthorized possession of a pistol and once for abusive language to...
Lest other biographers should overlook them, MacArthur retells with zest the high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug...