Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were plastered when the bombing originally started a year ago. Farther south, the ground war was markedly intensified in both scale and determination. More than 25,000 U.S., South Korean and South Vietnamese troops scoured the countryside in six massive operations; one of them, the division-sized "Operation White Wing," was the biggest and possibly the costliest yet mounted in the war (see THE WORLD...
...mark were Navy planes from the U.S.S. Ranger, which dropped a bridge twelve miles southwest of Dong Hoi and blasted a ferry landing near Quang Khe. Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
...Operation White Wing, mounted by 12,000 men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry, Vietnamese airborne and South Korean marines, the first division-size assault of the war. Target: the longtime Viet Cong strongholds between Qui Nhon and Chu Lai along the South China...
...other party appeared very interested in Longo's offer of "a new leftist unity"-least of all the two other major left-wing parties, the Socialists...
...twelve leftist rebel leaders had flown off to their new "diplomatic" posts abroad, as ordered by President Hector Garcia-Godoy. And all last week Dominicans waited for the country's right-wing military leaders to follow suit. And waited. And waited. And waited...