Word: radioman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fusillade from the white van lasted for 30 seconds-"a lifetime," said one survivor-and when it was over two U.S. sailors lay dead and ten others, including all of the women, were wounded. The dead were Petty Officer 1st Class John R. Ball, 29, of Madison, Wis., and Radioman 3rd Class Emil E. White, 20, of Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, who was driving...
Soul Talk Regarding your article on Black English [Aug. 20]: As a radioman in the Coast Guard, I must be articulate in use of standard English language, but when I go home to Bed-Stuy I tend to use "been gone" and "maf work." My point being, don't knock it, man, till ya tried...
...orphanage in Jackson, Miss., along with his four younger brothers and sisters, after their mother died. At 15, he ran away and got a job making dentures in a dental factory. After a few months, he lied about his age to get into the Navy and served as a radioman in the Pacific during World...
...surge of Egyptians was too much for the canal defenders, a thin band of regular-army forces reduced that weekend by Yom Kippur passes. "My God," said a radioman in one bunker reporting back to Israel's secondary defenses ten miles to the rear, "it's like the Chinese coming across." Another forward observer reported that "hundreds, thousands of Egyptians are swimming toward our fort. We need reinforcements quickly...
...prosecution witnesses swore that they saw Mitchell standing at the ditch, and that they heard rifle fire. But neither could swear that they saw Mitchell shoot anyone. The third, Radioman Charles Sledge, said he was "positive" he saw Mitchell firing at the civilians. Mitchell's civilian defense attorney, Ossie B. Brown, discredited Sledge's account, quoting testimony Sledge gave to Army investigators: "I believe it was Sgt. Mitchell firing into the ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried...