Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But for all the careful research that makes the products of his map room so accurate, says Chapin, he must sometimes rely on informed guesswork. He remembers a week during World War II when a cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is...
That is a gamble Westy was willing to take because Khe Sanh sits astride five passes through the rugged Annamite mountains, including the major east-west Route No. 9. Control of Khe Sanh, U.S. commanders insist, puts the Marines in a blocking position across the natural invasion route into the...
South Vietnamese infantry units closed in on the city from all sides, and three companies of U.S. Marines, spearheaded by a platoon of army tanks, moved in to rescue a besieged U.S. military advisory unit trapped in its command. That mission accomplished, they turned to aid the South Vietnamese in...
The first phase, which produced the battles of Loc Ninh and Dak To along the Cambodian border, was designed to draw American forces away from population centers and rural pacification areas and "force us," as Westmoreland said, "to dissipate our military strength." The second phase erupted in the past week...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on everything they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings...