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...TIME IN HELL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Lee Marvin, an old Leatherneck himself, narrates this study of the U.S. Marine Corps's World War II campaigns from Guadalcanal to Okinawa...
Died. General Harry Schmidt, 81, Marine commander, who on Feb. 19, 1945, led two Leatherneck divisions onto the beaches of Iwo Jima, a tiny sliver of land won only after six weeks of violent battle that cost 5,500 U.S. and some 20,000 Japanese lives; of arteriosclerosis; in San Diego...
Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...
...Leatherneck Square. The Communists fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...
...northwest corner of Leatherneck Square, Con Thien is well covered by U.S. guns. Approximately seven miles south of it lies Cam Lo at the southwest corner of the square. About the same distance east lies Gio Linh, at the northeast corner, with Dong Ha to its south. All four outposts, in addition to others farther south, notably Camp Carroll, can provide artillery support for one another or reinforcements if necessary...