Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Prime Minister is not exactly traveling light - or alone. Against the chance that Africans infuriated by British arms shipments to Gowon might attack Wilson during the visit, the 11,000-ton amphibious assault ship Fearless will drop anchor off Lagos with an extra platoon of marines aboard.
EVERY war leaves to history its particular symbols of destruction-Verdun in the first World War; Coventry, Stalingrad and Dresden in the second. In Viet Nam, the enduring symbol is likely to be Hué, once the imperial capital and long the fountainhead of the country's intellectual and...
A little farther on stands a house that at one point in the battle served as the command post for a Marine company. A batch of tired newspapermen, including Greenway, rested there one night during the fighting and someone found a bottle of whisky and passed it around. The owner...
To Professor Albritton, ABSOLUTELY the only faculty member who publicly acknowledged the fact that there REALLY IS a separate department known as the Department of the Air Force, but after all, gee whiz, fellows, we haven't been "The Army Air Corp" since 1947. I honestly don't believe the...
To most Americans, March 5, 1965 is one of the less memorable dates in their history. It was, however, the last day Johnson could have revoked the decision to put a contingent of Marines ashore in Viet Nam. On March 5, 3,500 men landed five miles west of Danang...