Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamed from Newport News, Va., to Algeria in the spring of 1944, the G.I.s aboard did what soldiers going to war always do: they wrote a lot of letters home. Some of them never got there: to be exact, 235 letters to 117 addresses in 34 states from 93 servicemen. For reasons that may never be known, this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by Michael Minguez, an exterminator...
There were a string of U.S. defectors to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, including American servicemen who later appeared on Soviet television or in the state-run press to denounce the United States...
...worker's error in removing control rods from the core of the SL-1 military experimental reactor near Idaho Falls caused a fatal steam explosion. Three servicemen were killed, one of them by impalement on a control rod. The deaths were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations...
...every sign of stepping down when his term ends in 1988 and seems to be moving--or at least edging--toward democracy. Nor is the U.S. inclined to underestimate its ally's strategic needs or its own. Last week Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger visited the 41,000 American servicemen in South Korea and reaffirmed the Reagan Administration's view that the country's security is vital to U.S. interests...
...supreme allied military commander in Europe said a West Berlin nightclub explosion, which killed an American sergeant and wounded 50 other servicemen, was the work of a "worldwide network" of terrorists set up by Khadafy...