Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combat photography has become almost a commonplace, an adjunct to the 6 o'clock news and weather. A Face of War, though, has a rightful claim to be judged as art: it is a documentary in the great tradition begun by Civil War Photographer Matthew B. Brady when he...
The excellence of A Face of War is not only in its fine camerawork but also in its sense of completeness. Its 77 minutes encompass the totality of Viet Nam combat: the fear and pain and boredom, heat and rain, rare relaxation, and uneasy meetings of East and West. The...
(2 of 3) pilots in tiny FAC planes hovered continually over the battlefield to locate the more easily indentifiable targets. To coordinate all the activities, an ABCCC (Airborne Command and Control Center) was kept in the sky high over Khe Sanh at all times. It was a C-130 Herky...
U.S. airmen enclosed the besieged fortress in a virtual curtain of falling bombs. Though the Marines lost most of their original supply of artillery ammunition when an enemy shell hit their supply dump early in the siege, they were able to call in airpower for the sort of pinpoint destruction...
"We Goofed." After joining Merrill Lynch in 1946, fresh from South Pacific service with the Marines, he went through the firm's sales training program and caught the eye of the then sales-promotion chief, Robert Magowan. While other graduates were sent out to run branch offices, Regan remained...