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Vietnam - 4 Flashcards

1
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total number of WIA and KIA at Albany

A

276

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2
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actor who played Hal Moore in the 2002 film “We were Soldiers”

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Mel Gibson

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3
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person who works for ABC News

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Jack Smith

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4
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term for when humans have trouble processing and comprehending all of the terribly things they have witnessed

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thousand yard stare

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5
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person who was the US chopper pilot who disobeyed orders and flew supplies into LZ X-Rat

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Bruce Crandall

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6
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term for the nickname of a helicopter

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bird

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7
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term for the supplies brought into LZ X-Ray

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water and ammunitiion

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8
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year Bruce Crandall was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his efforts at LZ X-Ray

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2007

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9
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year Jacob Parrot receives the first Congressional Medal of Honor

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1861

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10
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first person to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor

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Jacob Parrot

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11
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year the first Congressional Medal of Honor was ever issued

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1861

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12
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term for the college that George Forrest attended for football

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Talsan State

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13
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M/D/Y of the My Lai Massacre

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3/16/68

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14
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number of people in the Charlie Company that showed up at My Lai

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105

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15
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number of tourists that visit My Lai annually

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50,000

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16
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platoon leader who was court martialled and sentenced to life in prison in 1971

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Lt. William Calley

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17
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person who was museum director at My Lai and also a survivor of the massacre

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Pham Thanh Cong

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18
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term for the nickname of My Lai

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Pinkville

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19
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person who was the door gunner for Hugh Thompson

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Lawrence Colburn

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20
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number of people that Hugh Thompson flew to safety after My Lai

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11

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21
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age of the boy that Hugh Thomspon pulled out of the ditch of dead bodies and then flew to an orphanage

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4

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22
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Lt. who was charged and convicted of murder and was court-martialled

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Lt. William Calley

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23
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US chopper pilot who stopped the My Lai Massacre

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Hugh Thompson

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24
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number of people killed at My Lai

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400-500

25
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M/D/Y of the My Lai Massacre

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3/16/68

26
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Group of US soldiers that went into My Lai

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Charley Company

27
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term for the nick name of the My Lai Village

A

Pinkville

28
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name of the American Seargent at My Lai

A

Ken Hodgens

29
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average age of a Charley Company soldier

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20

30
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name of the former radio operator of the Charlie Company

A

Fred Whitmer

31
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nickname of the child that some of the Charlie Company soldiers would play with

A

6 Fingers

32
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name of the former US arrmy chaplain

A

Carl Grasswell

33
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time that the US helicopters left for My Lai

A

7:22

34
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time that the US helicopters arrived at My Lai

A

7:35

35
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number of men in the Charley Company

A

120

36
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number of officers at My Lai

A

5

37
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name of the photographer at My Lai

A

Ron Haeberle

38
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name of the girl who’s sister was raped and killed and her family was burned

A

Pham Tiri Trinh

39
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person who was former HI who refused to kill at My Lai

A

Harry Stanely

40
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former GI who brought forth the truth of the massacre by writing letters to Congress encouraging an investigation

A

Rob Ridenhour

41
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year Varnardo Simpson commited suicide by a shotgun

A

1997 (May 4)

42
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year “Remember My Lai” came out

A

1989

43
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person who killed, scalped, and mutilated many villagers at My Lai

A

Varnardo Simpson

44
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list comletely unacceptable actions at My Lai

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  • sexual assaults
  • mutilations (scalping, cutting off ears and tongues…)
  • killing animals
45
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number of Americans killed out on patrol before the My Lai Massacre

A

4

46
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number of Americans wounded on patrol before the My Lai Massacre

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38

47
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years it took until the My Lai picture came out

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1 1/2

48
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population of Vietnam

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84 Million

49
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number of miles the tunnel system was away from Saigon

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10

50
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term for the name of the US soldiers that went in the Vietnam tunnels

A

tunnel rats

51
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number of feet wide of a Vietnam tunnel

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3.9

52
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number of feet high of a Vietnam tunnel

A

3-6

53
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number of years a village survived underground in a tunnel

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6

54
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over how many ice creams plants were put in Vietnam by 1947 for American soldiers

A

40

55
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numbers of families that stayed behind in a tunnel for 6 years to support the Garrison

A

60

56
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total number of feet the village that stayed underground for 6 years were under

A

80

57
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term for the vietnamese that would leave the safety of their tunnels for supplies

A

suicide squads

58
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term for the river that intersected the Ho Chi Minh trails and was near a cave

A

Son River

59
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term for the product that Vietnam exported a lot of

A

coffee

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