Word: paratroop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major Offensive. As the rebel force increased (it now numbers 500 men), Batista tried aerial bombing, strafing, napalm attacks and paratroop drops. They had little effect on Castro's hit-and-run platoons. A fortnight ago the strongman was forced to give up the waiting game and mount a major offensive. Commandeering civilian planes, he airlifted 1,100 men to ominous with no-nonsense orders to go in and get Castro's men. Meanwhile, terrorists in other parts of the country are being dealt with ruthlessly-when they are found. In Havana last week, two unexplained bodies turned...
...words spoken by a British paratroop colonel citing the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt as "a bloody good exercise" and expressing his part in it as "a lot of fun and very interesting" might well have been spoken by a Russian colonel citing the crushing of Hungary and expressing his part in the slaughter of the Hungarian people...
Instead next morning allied planes and ships began to soften up Port Said for a seaborne landing. When the bombardment ended, commandos, more paratroopers and armor began to pour ashore. (One Royal Marine Commando, 500 strong, made the trip from ship to shore by helicopter, thereby scoring a first in the history of amphibious warfare.) Some headed down the canal, got within 20 miles of Ismailia before the cease-fire took effect. Others, supported by tanks, probed through the streets of Port Said slowly cleaning out stubbornly resisting remnants of the Egyptian army and the irregulars of Nasser...
Despite this activity, few soldiers on Cyprus seemed to expect action. Said a battle-seasoned British paratroop officer: "It's hard for us to tell out here, that's true, but I'd say the thinking is about ten to one against...
...vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell, it ain't a matter of wanting or not wanting niggers in the school, it's a matter of who's going to run the town, the Government...