Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Sloan, 34, a Caltech-educated physicist, was in charge of the scientific instruments aboard Mariner IV. Before joining JPL for the Ranger moon shot, he did basic research on low-temperature physics at Caltech. He believes man shows his nobility by action. Says Sloan: "Tears streamed down my face when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile...
...Army Sergeant Harold G. Bennett, 25, of Perryville, Ark., a radio operator captured by the Viet Cong last December while serving as an adviser to a South Vietnamese Ranger battalion, was executed. According to Radio Hanoi, Bennett was put to death in reprisal for recent public executions of Viet Cong terrorists by the Saigon regime (see THE WORLD...
Like a swarm of angry locusts, the helicopters descended on the soccer field at Dongxoai. Out of them poured Vietnamese rangers, who were greeted by a hail of Viet Cong fire. Three fell within a minute; the rest bolted for a ditch by a road. But one hulking figure, a Leica camera bobbing about his neck, threw himself against a hut and started snapping pictures. In the bloody melee, he took some memorable ones: a ranger as he was hit, his hand clutched to his stomach; a Viet Cong, his head popped up over a bunker to stare with surprise...
...that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough. They faded like smoke into the jungle, leaving behind 700 dead. The defenders' toll was terrible too: at least 108 dead (including 18 Americans), 46 wounded, 126 missing and presumed dead. Along...
...Effects of Despair. In terms of overall performance, South Viet Nam's military establishment cannot be rated as anything better than middling. After all, it has neither won nor approached victory in eleven years of existence. Many units break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...