Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rape, Murder & Life. Typical is the recent case of Marine Sergeant Charles Wilkerson. While on patrol, he disappeared into the bushes with a suspected V.C. prisoner. Two shots were heard; Wilkerson returned alone. Hours later, another Marine patrol came across the body of the prisoner, his hands still tied behind his back. Within two months, Wilkerson was before a general court-martial, charged with murder. He admitted the shooting, but claimed he had been ordered to do it. Testified Wilker son: "The lieutenant said: 'Pull out of the column and kill him.' " One other member of the patrol...
...authority reduced the jail sentence to 30 years, and with the help of civilian attorney Matthew H. Brandenburg, Wilkerson will appeal even that sentence. Similarly, in March, four Air Cavalry troopers, convicted of participating in the rape-murder of a 20-year-old Vietnamese farm girl during a reconnaissance patrol, were all dishonorably discharged and given sentences ranging from eight years to life, according to their degree of involvement in the crime. Last January, one Marine was sentenced to ten years and two others to life imprisonment for gunning down two unarmed Vietnamese civilians while on patrol...
Inevitably, there were sneers of "Uncle Tom." In Atlanta, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman H. Rap Brown growled: "To the brothers putting on the white hats-you are to be regarded as traitors, and will be dealt with as traitors." But in Dayton, where the youth patrol of 30 effectively broke up disorderly crowds and performed liaison between their peers and police, many Negro residents told the white hats: "God bless...
When they made their retreat, however, the Viet Cong ran into an exploring American patrol and killed nine of its ten members. In two other clashes in the northern coastal provinces of the country, U.S. troops killed 130 of the Viet Cong's black pajama-clad regular soldiers, lost only six of their own men. During Operation Beacon Torch in Quang Nam province, U.S. Marines killed 57 North Vietnamese. During the battle, ten leathernecks also fell...
...they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck made his armies work The Longest Day. In the end, Marvin makes it back to a base hospital with the sole remnant of the patrol. There, a general praises them for a job well done and fatuously commutes the sentences of the prisoners-posthumously...