Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists decide to touch off a brushfire in Southeast Asia, the first Army troops to swing into action would be the 2,000 paratroopers of the 503rd Battle Group, which is stationed on Okinawa 1,500 miles from South Viet Nam. Despite the knowledge that they are expendable troops, the spirit of the 503rd men is so high that many were genuinely disappointed that they did not get into action earlier this year during the Laotian crisis. Says Captain Jere Hickman: "We were sharpening our knives. I felt sorry for the enemy." The paratroopers share Okinawa with the rugged...
...softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command-the 1st Marine Division-in the last months of the Korean...
...ships stationed in the Formosa Strait to guard President Eisenhower's way. We could see Quemoy and hear in the distance the muted thunder of the 88,000-gun salute. In January we were part of the special striking force assembled and deployed from Okinawa on New Year's Day. On Easter day we watched and waited in readiness on the South China...
...First Army Special Forces Group's Okinawa-based guerrilla experts are poised to parachute into the interior and to organize guerrilla warriors...
...Marine Brigade, aboard a U.S. Navy transport bound for maneuvers off the U.S. West Coast, was ordered to wheel around and return to station in Okinawa. The U.S. lifted 16 helicopters to the Laotian forces, deposited some 400 marines, many of them veterans of the 1958 Lebanon landings, at a base just across the border at Udon, Thailand. Around the clock, U.S. C-130 cargo transports lumbered into Bangkok, disgorging guns and ammunition for transfer to the anti-Communist Laotian troops...