Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the fact that the U.S. has long been hitting every means of transport from truck to barge in the North, the decision to bomb major sources of the fuel on which they depend is a compelling, consistent progression. In any case, as Vice President Hubert Humphrey observed last week, even though "there will be friends who disagree with us, it is our men who are there. It is our men who are facing Communist bullets...
...Once the enemy passed within three feet of them while they crouched in 6-ft.-tall elephant grass; another time a herd of buffalo chased them. For sustenance, they had the remains of a $16 bag of candy they had bought. Finally they spotted a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport landing behind a ridge and arrived at a South Vietnamese army compound at An Hoa, 20 miles south of Danang-unshaven and tangle-haired, each 30 lbs. lighter, their feet blistered. Grunted a sergeant as they staggered up to the camp perimeter: "You're lucky. My sentry almost shot...
...versed himself in Yiddish and Zionism to confuse Jewish spokesmen. He found the transport to ghettos and crematoriums. Nothing personal, he testified. He came from an ordinary Bible-reading Protestant family, and had had Jewish friends during his Austrian boyhood. In transmitting orders, he never persecuted "individuals"-"it was a matter of a political solution. For this I worked 100 percent...
Lieut. Thung, however, decided to play the hero and attack on his own. Trouble was, the U.S. command had dispatched a battalion of 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) by Caribou transport and then helicopter from Kontum to join up with the 101st in Tuy Hoa. All night, Thung's mortars blasted away at the U.S. position on a small plateau, but with little effect...
...gloomy hangar at Burbank, Calif., the behemoth was shown off for the first time this week by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. It is a $1,000,000 full-scale mockup of the Lockheed 2000, the plane that the company hopes will become the nation's first supersonic passenger transport...