DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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U.S. 82nd Airborne troops of the Inter-American Force clean up a Santo Domingo street Sept. 7, 1965, after removing half of a sandbag emplacement facing the rebel zone. Barbed wire in the foreground maintains a closed street. terse '4. - 4-1-nx r . s U.S. infantrymen rush to pre-assigned field positions as Army tcopters drop them near a Viet Cong stronghold. 5 an 1E WIDE WORLD PHOTOS t t UPI UPI From the shores of Santo Domingo to the streets of Los Angeles to the jungles of Viet Nam, Americans were at war in 1965-66. The locales and motives varied widely, but the blood spilled was equally red, and the lives lost equally American. This US. Marine has his hands full following a helicopter raid on a village ten miles to the south of Chu Lai last Aug. 6. The Marines take blindfolded Viet Cong and suspected sympathizers back to base for questioning. 26

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Lifting off from Cape Kennedyts Launch Complex 19, NASAts powerful Titan II rocket blasts Gemini 5 astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad up and away on their highly 1 successful 8-day mission. A Los Angeles furniture store blazes wildly in the cityts all-Negro Watts area, one of the many hres that burned through the streets where rioting raged for three consecutive nights last August. NASA 1; WIDEWORLD PHOTOS AP Generator-powered searchlights usually used to publicize film premieres and supermarket openings were put to good use in New York,s Times Square area Nov. 9 during the power failure. t 25

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U.S. airborne troops run for cover after debarking from a helicohter during operation last fall near Ben Cat in South Viet Nam. AP AP mcmmm .; U.S. AIR FORCE x , . . A youth, with lampshades from a looted store, runs down the street in the Watts section of Los Angeles last Aug. 13 following the outbreak of rioting. The six days of violence left 34 dead and resulted in $40 million in property damage. h A 750-pound bomb falls toward its target from a US. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre. During this Mekong Delta strike 47 miles southwest of Saigon, four Viet Cong structures were destroyed. 27