Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"I Was Lucky." The savage fate of Dengler's companion was shared by six U.S. Marines wounded in a fierce mor tar barrage near the 17th parallel, where Operation Hastings continued to take a heavy toll of Red dead last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own...
To counter the plan, General William Westmoreland ordered a massive spoiling operation. It was called Operation Hastings, and it involved nine battalions of U.S. Marines, the largest number ever thrown into any combat in Viet Nam, together with sizable South Vietnamese army and marine units. When it got under way...
Hill Fortress. Ambushes and close-range fire fights began almost at once. In rapid order, each of three Marine battalions found and named its own "Ambush Valley." Two of the battalions moved into a landing zone surrounded on three sides by mountains filled with enemy troops. The marines were to...
Trapped at the river, the marines called in air strikes. Even so, the heavy attack continued. "The air was chopping them to pieces, but they kept coming at us," said Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty. All but ten men of McGinty's platoon had been wounded before a relief...
The absorbing Washington game that Philip Geyelin calls "Lyndonology"-the study of the President-is usually more of a cutting-down than a building-up pastime. Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson'...