Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buildup Their green twill uniforms and tan pith helmets identified them as North Vietnamese regulars. Intelligence said they belonged to Ho Chi Minh's 324B Division, which the U.S. Marines had routed out of South Viet Nam in Oper ation Hastings in July. Back up to full strength, the...
For the eighth time in the war, Guam-based B-52s roared in to plaster the Demilitarized Zone above the 17th parallel, this time in support of a 1,500-man Marine sweep south of the DMZ. Storming ashore from amphibious landing craft and coming to earth in choppers, the...
> Oswald was not really a very good marksman, yet his shooting on that day would have required remarkable skill: two direct hits on a moving target in less than six seconds with a rifle that had a defective scope. In the Marines, he scored only one point above the lowest...
Along the way, Goerner does infect the reader with some nagging points. He has found two U.S. Marines who claim that they exhumed the flyers' bodies in Saipan in 1944, and says that the remains were either secretly reinterred or are today in the possession of the Armed Forces...
In the operating room at Danang East, two green-gowned Navy surgeons wielded their scalpels as Medical Corps technicians hovered around the table. But the patient was not one of the U.S. Marines for whose after-battle care the big Navy hospital was primarily in tended. She was Hoi Pham...