Word: os
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday, two B-26 light bombers roared in from the sea toward Havana, dropped to low level and started their bomb runs. One plane worked over Castro's Air Force Base at San Antonio de los Baños, 20 miles southwest of the capital. The other attacked Havana's Camp Liberty, Castro's main military headquarters. Darting through a curtain of antiaircraft fire, the B-26 swept over the camp toggling bombs, banked around for a rocket attack, then finished off by a strafing run with eight .50-cal. machine guns. As smoke from exploding ammo...
...capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours, and finally died fighting...