Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steamed home for a well-earned five-month rest, the squadron left behind a handsome record. In 1,239 sorties, it had destroyed or damaged-among other targets-139 enemy barges and patrol boats, 86 trucks and three key bridges, and had knocked out one of North Viet Nam's most important thermal-power plants. Along the way, the squadron lost only two of its twelve planes. As Mandeville told his squadron when he took over early this year: "We don't need to blow our own horn-the results will show." And so they...
...gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical terrain. From the swamps of the Mekong Delta, where 30-ft. patrol boats packed with unsinkable plastic foam whisk along on water jets, to the shell-pocked "Rockpile" below the Demilitarized Zone, where six-barreled Ontos tracked vehicles rumble, the arsenal last week was in awesome action...
Monday, November 14 RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Enemies become allies when Germans join with Rat Patrol Raiders to stave off an Arab attack...
...they will always be mighty proud that you came this way, and so am I." For several U.S. soldiers, his words were soon to prove tragically prophetic. That night, while Johnson slept at the Walker Hill recreation center overlooking Seoul, North Korean infiltrators ambushed a U.S. Army patrol 800 yds. south...
This question of supervision is now the only major stumbling block to the actual institution of the lounge. Possible plans include having the night watchman or the University Police patrol the building, instituting a system by which Radcliffe girls can watch it themselves, or issuing keys to all those interested...