Joseph Abodeely, a young lieutenant with the 1st Air Cav, took part in the historic relief of Marines who held Khe Sahn for 77 days
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Daily Quiz for July 28, 2010
Vimy Ridge in France is often called the birthplace of this nation.
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Capt. Dale Dye’s WW II Reading List
Dale Dye, a retired Marine Corps captain who served in Vietnam, founded and runs Warriors, Inc., a company that conducts a full-immersion boot camp to train actors for war films. He has also acted in, written scripts for, or directed many television and film productions; his more familiar credits include Platoon, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific.
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Marine Showdown at Dai Do: Recollections of a Green “One Four Man”
At the village of Dai Do in early May 1968, Lance Cpl Robert Hunt, a radioman with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, new in-country, encounters his first battle and is told he will be trained as a one four man to direct airstrikes, medevacs and resupply
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Interview: Walt Sides / Rolling Thunder
Vietnam veteran Walt Sides, president of Rolling Thunder, Washington, D.C., discusses his experiences as a member of the first sniper platoon in Marine history, and his work with Rolling Thunder, the nation’s largest POW/MIA activist organization.
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Coca-Cola Kid Startles Sleeping Marines
Tired and hot Marines who had found the perfect shady spot for some much-needed shut-eye, sat up in disbelief when a little Vietnamese kid walked into their secluded nest and tried to sell them ice-cold Coca-Colas
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Screenwriter Bruce C. McKenna Talks About ‘The Pacific’ Miniseries
Bruce C. McKenna, who won a Writers Guild Award for his work on ‘Band of Brothers,’ talks about his expanded role in creating ‘The Pacific’ and the differences between the two HBO miniseries.
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Interview: Sir Max Hastings / Journalist and Historian
Sir Max Hastings served (albeit briefly) in the British army, covered 11 conflicts worldwide as a journalist and reporter and has since written nearly two dozen military histories.
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The Unconventional Burt Rutan
In a career that has flouted convention, Burt Rutan made advances to the stall-resistant canard wing and designed SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded aircraft to achieve suborbital flight.
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Daily Quiz for August 30, 2009
The American bombing campaign over North Vietnam called Rolling Thunder lasted from March 1965 to November 1968. The original proposal favored by the Air Force for the campaign called for it to last this long.