Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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C-Rats & Spray. The bottleneck has not yet curtailed any major U.S. action in Viet Nam, but it has, as one officer puts it, "kept us in essentially a defensive position." At the 1st Air Cav's giant enclave at An Khe, Jeeps and trucks are only driven when...
Navy frogmen were already there; a flotation collar was lashed into place and a plugged-in telephone provided close-up communication with the astronauts even before they opened their hatches. TV brought its fans as close as any Wasp crewman when the capsule was finally hoisted on deck, and as...
Narrowing Horseshoe. The first part of the plan worked, but at fearful cost. The initial force, a battalion of Vietnamese rangers, was barely 15 miles west of the district town of Tarn Ky when a regiment of V.C.s buried deep in bunkers and armed with .50-cal. ma chine guns...
Boston's Crosscup-Pishon Post 281 of the American Legion printed its ecumenical announcements with pictures of its 1966 Good Government Award winners: Richard Cardinal Gushing, 70, Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., 60, and Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, 55, of Boston's Temple Israel. Oops. The...
End of a Taboo. In one of the biggest battles yet mounted by U.S. forces, paratroopers and helicopter-borne troops of the elite 173rd Airborne Brigade plunged into eight hours of furious hand-to-hand combat with screaming, cymbal-clashing Viet Cong guerrillas 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The toll...