... was killed the day before by a booby trap close to QL-1, outside of Captain Medina's hooch. They became very angry with the Viet Cong. The next morning, March 16, Calley ordered his men to go on a "search and destroy" mission. At about 7:20 a.m. the men of Charlie Company got into the Huey choppers, checking their supplies and ammunition, and was ready ... enemy fire. Thompson saw Vietnamese civilians running through rice paddies, from Charlie Company. He landed his chopper between the soldiers and the civilians, and said if anybody would shoot, Thompson ordered his gunmen to shoot the ...

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... camp. The enemy was fought off and in early November 3rd Brigade replaced the 1stBrigade. After three days of no contact during patrols, Hal Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry was ordered to make an assault in the Ia Drang Valley. His mission: "Find and kill the enemy" (www.lzxray.com 2002). The assault began at 0830 hours with helicopter reconnaissance and ... fire and air support really didn't make any impact on the NVA as they kept coming (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). The evening came and A-B Companies were ordered to pull back to the LZ. C-D Companies were still fighti...

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... honor, Nixon had been gradually withdrawing US troops from South Vietnam, at the same time increasing transportation and weapon supplies so that South Vietnam could continue the war. He also ordered a series of violent attacks; the most important attack was the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, in an attempt to cut off supply routes from North to South Vietnam through Cambodia ... universities and fanned the flames of anti-war among students. Protests continued after the Kent State Massacre. Some schools were closed until fall that year. New York major John Lindsey ordered flags at New York...

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... U.S. had begun surveillance of the North Vietnamese coast, and was supporting South Vietnam's commando missions, destroying bridges, railroads, and coastal installations, throughout North Vietnam (Encarta "Vietnam War-). After Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the Viet Cong began recruiting and organizing and army to face a full-scale U.S. military intervention (Encarta "Vietnam War-). Just like in Korea ... waters, and was consequently fired on by Viet Cong gunboats (Encarta "Vietnam War-). This confrontation was the excuse to go to war the U.S. was waitin...

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... was about to vote whether or not to allow the combat to move into North Vietnam, the North Vietnamese attacked a major U.S. airbase at Bein Hoa. On February 7th, 1965, Johnson ordered retaliation bombing on North Vietnam. Rolling Thunder was the name of this operation. It's purpose was to put pressure on Hanoi and convince them that Communism could not and would ... 1861 by Confederate Captain R.S. Williams. The Williams rapid-fire gun was first used in May 1862 at the Battle of Seven Pines and worked so well that the War Dept ordered 42 more of them. The gun was actually a crank-operat...

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... booby traps, while the weather killed our men with exhaustion. There are several incidents that I couldn't get out of my mind after I read them. The first was when Caputo was ordered to leave dead bodies in the middle of the road so everyone could get used to seeing them. " So the corpses were left lying in the sun. As the colonel ... had ordered, the headquarters troops marched past the trailer to look at the dead Viet Cong the sun burned down, and the bodies began to smell in the heat," (173-174). This ... ...

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... where 9 Americans were killed and 5 aircraft were destroyed. That evening the Johnson administration held a meeting and in less that 2 hours they decided to strike back. With in hours the President ordered operation Flaming Dart, which was a plan of retalitory strikes already draw up. So, for the next 2 days American aircraft struck NVA military installations just accross the 16 parallel. Then on ... February 10th the NLF attacked a US hotel in Qui Nhon, where 23 US advisors were killed. After that Johnson ordered an even heaver series of air strikes which continued until March 2nd when...

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... children, were shot to death. The final army estimate for the number killed was 347. Lt. William Calley was a ruthless barbarian. He ordered his men to get as many civilians as possible and throw them into a ditch. He then ordered them to shoot into the ditch. He burned the town, and murdered vigorously. A Huey pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh C. Thompson, witnessed the shootings ... ...

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... . On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. That night, eighty riots broke out. Federal troops were dispatched into Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, and Wilmington. "Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, ordered police to shoot to kill arsonists and the main looters." The actions by Richard J. Daley, were a sign of respect of King. Ironically, a year before, Daley was against having King speak ... the Left, and the youth movement grew, so did the idea of fighting back against the State. The idea of a single world revolution, grew. On April 30, 1970, President Nixon ordere...

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... random violence, as they attained an ability to accept and suffer what Americans would not. The survival of the Vietnamese required this (134). At the end of May, Caputo was ordered to report back to Regimental Headquarters Company as an administrative officer. Caputo returned to the infantry battalion to get some gear he had left. Lemon, the platoon sergeant, told Caputo ... going out and fighting in the same locations, as men kept on being killed or wounded. The environment and situation remained the same, only the scoreboard changed (192). Soldiers were ordered to abandon a base to f...

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... ."(2) When America joined the war under command of General MacArthur, they made a great push north. When they were close to the Yalu River they were ordered to stop and turn around. "United States forces were ordered to turn around when they were in visual distance of the Yalu River." (3) When China learned of the position of the Americans they joined the war ... ...

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... U.S. had begun surveillance of the North Vietnamese coast, and was supporting South Vietnam's commando missions, destroying bridges, railroads, and coastal installations, throughout North Vietnam (Encarta "Vietnam War-). After Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the Viet Cong began recruiting and organizing and army to face a full-scale U.S. military intervention (Encarta "Vietnam War-). Just like in Korea ... waters, and was consequently fired on by Viet Cong gunboats (Encarta "Vietnam War-). This confrontation was the excuse to go to war the U.S. was waitin...

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... to Khrushchev that Kennedy was weak. On, October 22, 1962 when photographs taken from an American plane showed proof of missiles being installed in Cuba by the Soviets, Kennedy immediately ordered a naval "quarantine" against Cuba, and told the USSR that he wanted the missiles removed immediately . Also, he threatened Khrushchev by saying that an attack from Cuba on the US would ... 1967, Egypt and Syria took a number of steps which led Israel to believe that an Arab attack was in the near future."" On May 16, The President of Egypt, Nasser ordered a withdrawal of the United Nations Eme...

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... random violence, as they attained an ability to accept and suffer what Americans would not. The survival of the Vietnamese required this (134). At the end of May, Caputo was ordered to report back to Regimental Headquarters Company as an administrative officer. Caputo returned to the infantry battalion to get some gear he had left. Lemon, the platoon sergeant, told Caputo ... going out and fighting in the same locations, as men kept on being killed or wounded. The environment and situation remained the same, only the scoreboard changed (192). Soldiers were ordered to abandon a base to f...

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... Communist agreed upon a peace plan. Sadly this peace plan fell through because the Communist claimed that the United States was not going along as agreed. That same year President Nixon ordered secret bombing of Cambodia and attempt to wipe out the Vietcong and the North Vietnam base camps. President Nixon informed the general American public that American troops would be sent ... ...

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... . It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. In August of 1963 Lyndon Johnson took over the American presidency because of the assassination of John Kennedy. He ordered the first air strikes on the North. Six month's later the Rolling thunder' air campaign began. In this campaign alone more bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than were used ... ...

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... state troopers who stood in a wall three deep 400 yards past the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama river. When black marchers came within 100 yards the troopers were ordered to put on their gas masks. At twenty five yards the marchers stopped. Seconds later the command "troopers forward" was barked. The troopers moved in a solid wall pushing back the ... ...

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... . It was also the biggest turning point in the Vietnam War. In August of 1963 Lyndon Johnson took over the American presidency because of the assassination of John Kennedy. He ordered the first air strikes on the North. Six month's later the Rolling thunder' air campaign began. In this campaign alone more bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than were used ... ...

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... possibility of full-scale U.S. military intervention. In January 1964 he approved top-secret, covert attacks against North Vietnamese territory, including commando raids against bridges, railways, and coastal installations. Johnson also ordered the U.S. Navy to conduct surveillance missions along the North Vietnamese coast. He increased the secret bombing of territory in Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a growing network of paths ... ...

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... Kent State University during an antiwar protest. After this congress forced the removal of all troops from Cambodia. In March 1972, North Vietnam started invading South Vietnam again and Nixon ordered a bombing raid on North Vietnam. This, in turn, helped stop the invasion and a cease-fire agreement was signed in Paris by all three parties, North Vietnam ,South Vietnam and the ... ...

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... many of Dransfield's rebellious subjects. One such subject close to his heart was the Vietnam War. Prior to Vietnam wars were becoming less glamorized and so the conservative Liberal government ordered in compulsory conscription. The main reason for this although not official is that the liberal government feared the domino effect theory would become a reality if the war wasn't ended quick ... ...

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... U.S. and U.K. for four days conducted joint air strikes against targets in Iraq considered to be part of chemical and biological weapons programs. The President addressed the nation stating that he ordered the strikes because of the "clear and present danger posed by Iraq's weapons-making program." The President went on to say that the U.S. would "work towards the day Iraq has ... ...

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... fighting of the entire war. South Vietnamese were assassinated by communists for collaborating with Americans; the when the ARVN returned, NLF sympathizers were murdered. United States Marines and paratroopers were ordered to go from house to house to find North Vietnamese and NLF soldiers. Virtually indiscriminate shelling was what killed most civilians, however, and the architectural treasures of Hue were laid ... ...

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... event took place one night when Kovic and his troops were out on patrol. On that particular night, Kovic's lieutenant thought they had come upon an enemy campground and he ordered them to blow up the campsite. Kovic and his men carried out the orders only to discover that they had killed a tent full of innocent children and an old man ... ...

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... the country to communism. At this time, the U.S. was not officially involved physically. The U.S. entered the war soon after the attacks of North Vietnam on American ships. President Johnson had ordered retaliation by initiating the Rolling Thunder Operation? which started an attack on North Vietnam to convince that communism would and could not win. America's firm stance against communism was the ... ...

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