Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The enemy's plans for a major monsoon offensive in the Central Highlands last summer were aborted by such U.S. spoiling operations as Paul Revere and Hawthorne. Operation El Paso broke up an attempted Communist onslaught along the central coast. Most recently, Hanoi began massing for an invasion straight...
"The Japanese were strictly amateurs compared to these guys," says a veteran Marine officer. "We got a 14-year-old boy the other day, and it turned out that he was a bigger demolition expert than most Marines. He'd been rigging and setting mines for six years."
To reduce their losses, most U.S. units in Viet Nam now send their combat troops through special crash courses in booby traps. The Marines have cut in half the number of casualties caused by each mine by an order that men on patrol must remain at least 15 yards apart...
Denby Fowcett, 25, a Columbia University alumna, was a surfing, skindiving Hawaii wahine only a few months ago. Then her boy friend was sent to Saigon by the Honolulu Advertiser, and Denby, who had once written women's features, got the Advertiser to send her after him. The boy...
He Chi Minh's army has been trying to mount the attack since July, when the 324B became the first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ...