Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To the north, along the increasingly militarized Demilitarized Zone separating the two Viet Nams, 15,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops continued Operation Prairie, aimed at denying transit to Hanoi's legions headed south. In Prairie's nine weeks of hillto-hill combat, the Allies had poured...
The terrain was as tough as any the U.S. Marines had ever contested. It combined the horror of a Guadalcanal jungle with the exhausting steepness of the slopes at Chapultepec. Added to that were fusillades of bullets as ferocious as at Tarawa and showers of shrapnel that turned the forest...
Key to the fighting is "the Rock," a jagged, 750-ft. fang of granite that thrusts upward at the intersection of three river valleys and two enemy trails. During July's Operation Hastings, the Marines established a reconnaissance post atop the Rock, and a lone sniper fed by airdrops...
Snakes & Lanterns. Fighter-bombers seared both hills with flaming napalm, then returned with rockets, heavy fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. For three days, the Reds on Hill 400 hit back with mortar and small-arms fire so intense that Medevac helicopters could not land to take out Marine wounded...
Near the Razorback, Marines were treated to an eerie spectacle at night: dim lanterns moving back and forth on the ridge across from them. "The North Vietnamese are afraid of snakes," sneered one Marine. "That's why they carry them flashlights." Whatever their purpose, the lights provided excellent targets...