Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brigade just one day before the assault on My Lai. Two days later, after hearing reports from helicopter pilots of indiscriminate killing in the hamlet, Henderson visited Medina in the field. Medina was commander of Charlie Company and Lieut. William Galley's immediate superior. Although Medina's platoon leaders had told him that at least 106 Vietnamese had been killed, Medina told Henderson that the casualties had numbered just 20 to 28 civilians-all killed by artillery and helicopter gunship fire. Testified Medina: "I didn't tell him that I had a feeling these people had been...
Ignacio, the only defensive back ever to captain the Harvard squad in the two-platoon era, was the statistical leader among defensemen this fall with 71 tickles and five interceptions. Ignacio was also cited for making the key defensive play in several games...
Kind of Caesura. The North Vietnamese, said Nixon, are weaker militarily now than at any time since the war began. That is probably true, for enemy troops in South Viet Nam are operating in units of no more than platoon strength. Military action is near a standstill. One bored briefer at U.S. military headquarters in Viet Nam complains that the daily press release has been reduced practically to a single sentence: "Yesterday, U.S. aircraft flew B-52 missions in the Republic of Viet Nam during the 24-hour period ending at noon today." The lull may mean that...
...American officer in Viet Nam called it "a piddling platoon action." But to the millions of Americans who saw TV film clips of the daring attack by a Viet Cong demolition squad on the U.S. embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war." So did many of his countrymen, who had taken at face value General William Westmoreland's expansive claim, a few weeks before...
...rows and seats of college football memorabilia. After having dealt with the early gridiron heroes and glamor boys in former quizzes, this autumn the sports cube staff focuses on the '50's and '60's, when fans witnessed the rise and fall and then rebirth of a strategy called platoon football...