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  2. Shigaraki train disaster - Wikipedia

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    The accident happened at 10:35 (1:35 UTC) local time on May 14, 1991, on the SKR Shigaraki Line between Onotani Signal Station and Shigarakigūshi.. A special JR West rapid service train (501D) from Kyoto bound for Shigaraki had entered the Shigaraki Line at Kibukawa Station from the Kusatsu Line, transporting 716 passengers to the World Ceramic Festival that was being held in Shigaraki at the ...

  3. Project 100,000 - Wikipedia

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    Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, [1] [2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.

  4. Fall of Saigon - Wikipedia

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    The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. This decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War .

  5. Amagasaki derailment - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom Morpeth rail crashes, 1969, 1984, 1994: a total of 6 killed in three separate accidents United Kingdom Eltham Well Hall rail crash , 1972: 6 killed United States Cajon Pass , 1989, 1996: 8 killed, 6 in the San Bernardino train disaster of 1989 (4 from derailment and 2 from pipeline explosion) and 2 in 1996.

  6. List of journalists killed and missing in the Vietnam War

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    Vietnam, Saigon: Killed when his apartment was hit in a Viet Cong rocket attack [23] 1969: Saint-Paul, Alain: French: Agence France-Presse: Vietnam, Duc Lap: Killed during a PAVN rocket attack [24] 1969, April 18: Savanuck, Paul: American: Stars and Stripes: Vietnam: Killed during an engagement between PAVN forces and an American armored unit ...

  7. John Ripley (USMC) - Wikipedia

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    During his two years of Vietnam service, he participated in 26 major operations. In addition to numerous decorations for extensive combat experience at the rifle company and battalion levels, Ripley was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in destroying the Dong Ha bridge during the April 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive (also ...

  8. Dieter Dengler - Wikipedia

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    Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator who was shot down over Laos and captured during the Vietnam War.After six months of imprisonment and torture, and 23 days on the run, he became only the second captured US airman to escape during the war.

  9. Project Eldest Son - Wikipedia

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    Viet Cong soldier with a Type 2 AK-47 rifle. Only one sabotaged cartridge would be placed in a magazine or case of good ammunition. Project Eldest Son (also known as “Italian Green” or “Pole Bean”) was a program of covert operations conducted by the United States' Studies and Observation Group (SOG) during the Vietnam War.