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Marines trudge forward through calf–deep mud on the Numa Numa Trail, Bougainville—November 1943. In April 1942, five months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the unit was activated as part of the 2nd Marine Division. The headquarters was at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California, where it underwent intensive amphibious training ...
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Thích Trí Quang (chữ Hán: 釋智光) (21 December 1923 – 8 November 2019) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk best known for his role in leading South Vietnam's Buddhist population during the Buddhist crisis in 1963, and in later Buddhist protests against subsequent South Vietnamese military regimes until the Buddhist Uprising of 1966 was crushed.
Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp (born 27 June 1982) is a Vietnamese filmmaker and businesswoman.She is widely known as the director of the film Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2014) – a work that competed at many international film festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and the Three Continents Festival, and helped her win the Best Director award at the Bratislava ...
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Brigadier general Nguyen Van Diem, south of the city. Tri's outposts were just inside the Thua Thien-Quang Tri boundary, nearly 30 km northwest of Huế. Here, under the direct command of the 14th Ranger Group, were the 77th Ranger Battalion, seven RF battalions, and a troop of armored personnel carriers of the 17th Armored Cavalry Squadron.
Based on a typical battalion strength of 800 Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen, 2,892 Marines passed through the unit over those 47 months; 25.89% (747) were killed in action (KIA) and 0.0007% (2) were missing in action (MIA). 1/9 participated in the following operations during the Vietnam War:
A Mira Mesa man used a pair of homemade bombs to try to blow open ATM machines in San Diego, authorities allege, but he didn't make off with any cash. Instead, he came away with federal charges.