Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME IN HELL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Lee Marvin, an old Leatherneck himself, narrates this study of the U.S. Marine Corps's World War II campaigns from Guadalcanal to Okinawa...
...Mauser rifle of the type used by France's Civil Guards. Or, for $74.50, they could purchase the "hard-hitting and battle tested U.S. M-1 .30 Cal. carbine which wrote the obituary of Nazi and Nip alike from Anzio Beach all the way to Okinawa!" One man admiring the surplus weapons said, "I just want something cheap to do some target shooting with...
...Bonins, which supplied Japan with fish and many of its winter vegetables, were evacuated during the war, when the large Bonins were turned into a part of Japan's island defense system. After the U.S. took them over, it made them and the Ryukyu chain (including Okinawa) bases for air and naval installations. While Okinawa has since become the major U.S. military base in the Western Pacific, the Bonin area installations are now only three small stations and a complement of only 75 men. Last November, as an omiyage (gift) to Japan's visiting Premier Eisaku Sato, President...
...TREVINO, 28, 5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs., entered the U.S. Marines as a fairway hacker and emerged as a polished player-after a tour of duty on Okinawa, where "we had 'greens' covered with sand an inch or two deep." Trevino was a teaching pro in El Paso until last year, when he entered the U.S. Open at his wife's insistence, wound up fifth and won $6,000. Committed now to the tour ("You don't have to put up with the little old ladies here"), Lee skips rope and does situps, is often...
Elsewhere in the world, the Army has five divisions (232,000 men) in Europe, two (50,000 men) in troubled South Korea. Alaska (10,000) and Panama (5,000) are the only other sizable Army commitments; the Marines also maintain an amphibious brigade of 3,000 men in Okinawa that in effect provides reserves for Viet Nam. On that bloody ground, the Army currently has 333,000 men, the Marines 83,000. Clearly, any further thinning of force strengths across the world would leave the U.S. open to possible Communist flanking thrusts-which helps to explain Lyndon Johnson...