Word: turner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction based on interviews with officers and enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner...
...boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner, was sent to reinforce Maddox, and the patrol-now known grandiloquently as Task Group 72.1-went on as before...
When the blips were about three miles off, Turner Joy began firing, using her radar as guide, since nothing could be seen. Maddox followed suit-though her radar showed no target at all. Says Lieut. Raymond Connell, in charge of Maddox's guns: "I recall we were hopping around up there, trying to figure out what they [Turner Joy] were shooting at. We fired a lot of rounds, but it was strictly a defensive tactic." It could also have been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time...
...hope to celebrate other days that are relevant-Nat Turner Day or Marcus Garvey...
...Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron...