Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At 5 ft. 4| in., he was plainly too diminutive to meet the Navy's minimum height requirement (5 ft. 6 in.). So Victor Krulak persuaded a buddy to hit him on the head in hopes of raising a bump big enough to narrow the stature gap. That ploy...
The shelling of Saigon began at 4 a.m. One mortar round hit near the U.S. Embassy, another close to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where...
Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war...
Bamboo Breathing. After two days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But...
On the U.S. Role. On the U.S. side, the biggest initial problems were logistical, the number of troops available and the lack of U.S. troops' experience in a counterinsurgency environment. To build a logistical base to support over half a million men has been a herculean task. We now...