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Manhattan has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides weekday rail service [10] [11] to Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station). Manhattan is the southern terminus of the line. [12] U.S. Route 52 is the only numbered highway serving Manhattan; US 52 runs in the northwest–southeast direction through Manhattan. [13]
Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the first U.S. combat airborne operation since the Korean War and one of the largest Airmobile operations of the war. [ 7 ]
Vietnam, [ e ][ f ] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g ] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
History. Historical exonyms include place names of bordering countries, namely Thailand, Laos, China, and Cambodia. During the expansion of Vietnam (Nam tiến) some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese ...
Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1963–1969. Part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and Cold War. South Vietnam, Military Regions, 1967. Date. 1 November 1963 – 28 January 1969 (5 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) Location. North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Result.
Ravens with a T-28D Trojan at Long Tieng, Laos, 1970. The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots used as forward air controllers (FACs) in a covert operation in conjunction with the US Central Intelligence Agency in Laos during America's Vietnam War. The Ravens pinpointed targets for most of the air strikes ...
UTC-6 ( CST) • Summer ( DST) UTC-5 ( CDT) FIPS code. 17-197-46370. Manhattan Township is located in Will County, Illinois. It was established in 1853. [ 2] As of the 2010 census, its population was 9,218 and it contained 3,199 housing units. [ 3] Manhattan Township was formed from the western half of Trenton Township at an unknown date.
Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh), as well as the second or first language for other ethnicities of Vietnam, and still used by Vietnamese diaspora in the world.