Word: radcliffe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near completion is "the Barrier," a ten-mile defense perimeter consisting of cleared fire lanes, minefields, 68 watchtowers and an encircling snare of concertina wire that, if stretched out, would measure 10,000 miles. Inside the Barrier is Camp Radcliff (named for the first Cavalryman to die in Viet Nam), where some 2,100 structures are abuilding. They range from wood-and-tin hutments (to "get the troops off the mud") to an elegant lumber-and-natural-rock mess hall that advertises itself as "the Red Hawk...
...meeting near her home town of Amesville, Ohio, and began dating. One night last month, after he had picked her up at home to get an ice-cream cone, they headed for Las Vegas instead to get married. Last week Donald Melvin Boggs, the studious-looking ex-convict, and Radcliff, his willowy, olive-skinned girl friend, were arrested in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was charged with a six-day, three-state crime wave in which four men were bludgeoned and shot to death...
...downed helicopters. On the cabin floor of one of the choppers lay the wallet of a dead U.S. adviser-open to a picture of his wife and child. In all, three U.S. advisers-Captain Good, Sergeant William Deal of Mays Landing, N.J., and Specialist 4 Donald Braman of Radcliff, Ky.-were killed in the ambush, and six more wounded. The dead brought to 56 the number of U.S. troops killed so far in South Viet...