Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was just a year ago that the first wave of U.S. Marines, M-14 rifles clutched at high port, waded ashore at Danang. The landing came at a dismally low point in South Viet Nam's long struggle for independence, with the Viet Cong on the offensive and...
1,500 Refugees. While the 2nd was digging out a home at Cu Chi, the U.S. Marines were abandoning An Lao Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy...
Ap Quang Nam's mayor was something special too. Slight, gaunt of face behind a thick mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in...
Jacobs does not confine his efforts solely to medical emergencies--he performs morale-boosting missions as well. During the Dominican crisis, he was asked by anxious parents to contact Lance Corporal Martin E. Wahl, who was in combat with the Marines on the island. Jacobs spoke to Wahl's colonel...
Another is Robert Resseguie, 25, a native of Madison, N.J., and a former Peace Corps worker in Thailand. He is now an assistant AID representative in Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. After the U.S. Marines had cleared an area of Viet Cong in last summer's...