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Show The Salt L&ke Tribune, Friday, February 8,'IDCS The War We Never Fought DF.lASinG! THRIFT OTT Tingle Went Up Spines. Cuba Plan TO IUC W WIU PAT YOU vo caw roue ou Chick m out CtEMT Otff . mm Snitch aw X-In- vade Con tinned from Pare One 803rd Infantry, Col. Edwin M. Sayre, a World War n com-ba- t parachutist, felt pride ai 29 of hi 3Q men due for discharge that weekend applied for extended enlistment until they had' Jumped In battle or the crisis waa over. AFTER 2 pm. that Sunday, Lt Col. Walter Redmond, com- f mander of a Hercules SHORTLY "! Ma-ytrin- e transport ) 4 f t - at v I v squad- ron, was watch-- ' ing a Redskins- Eagles game oh television at hia - THE BIG C130S droned out at regular Intervals during the each carrying 92 men of alert battalion-o- f the 2nd .Marine Division from nearby . SHORTLY AFTER dawn that Sunday, Marine Skyhawks from Cherry Point flew 750 miles southeast and settled aboard the carrier Enterprise eshe steamed south. Jit Lejeune, a newly commissioned Marine second lieutenant reported to his battalion, leaving his wife waiting 111 a parking lot. She heard no WRJre of him for days and the new officer slept that night on the ground at Guantanamo. At Norfolk, Rear Acini. Harold. Bowen Jr., briefed destroyer skippers of his flotilla command. Cmdr. Claude L. Tyler, skipper of the destroyer Keith, .promptly phoned his duty officer aboard ship: Make all preparations for getting under way as soon as possible. The order surprised the men if the Keith. The ship was bare of ammu sltion, had few provisions aboard. The men ' began icrounging stores from nearby ihlps. Lt. McKinley. I?TTHE TROPIC night, a miles off the Puerto Rican coast, Mentzer bobbed over the waves in a captains gig to the ML McKinley. There Rear Adm. G. F. Pittard gave the amphibious commanders the surprise word: Philbriglex had been called off. They were to prepare to invade Cuba. dozon commission executive said Monday. jj-- Col. John F. 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Ready to Install UBBIEBAT Pmllnit'i th TV ipMth Ort. IS, the military FLV 44 SIZES Dressy, size Black ? GARTER BELTS AT THE C1NCLANT com pound In Norfolk, Adm. Robert L. Dennisons staff was augmented by a small group of tacticians who had been planning a possible Cuban invasion for months, as they plan for all contingencies. In late afternoon, the cruiser Newport News slipped out of Norfolk with Vice Adm, Alfred G. Ward aboard to command the blockade forces. Wltfc jih SHIRTS WOMEN'S FLATS BRAS, GIRDLES d SCIENTISTS: SUPS, HALF SLIPS That night hundreds of Marines used brooms to sweep rocks and sand from the Vieques air strip, then slept beide it, to be flown at dawn to Guan tanamo. THE HERCULES, sweating out its takeoff pn the short runway, flew them to Guantanamo to Tejoin their battalion. They would be first in the fight should Cuba be invaded. WORK REG. J FULL four-englne- d AND MEN'S ALL COTTON CHAMBRAY WILL HUY uled. AT THE SMALL airport on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, built to accommodate aircraft, a only Hercules great Marine transport suddenly Swooped down. Waiting were Marine frogmen parachutists, a small unit that had been practldng there. EN6INEERS HE BALD TEAT if l wer is forthcoming fromthe order company by Feh. A the could become permanenu Mr. Hale said the commisto sion ordered Thrift CKy stop selling and separate "non perishable below the Bems at a pnce state's published minimum. Mr. Hale said the state agen-a ease after cy acted in this of conferences ''"h HOURS Suddenly everything, Sample: at 12:45 a m., Cmdr. Max J. Trummer, a chest surgeon at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, was telephoned at his home, ordered to leave at once on classified orders. A car picked him up, took him. to the Willow Grove Naval Reserve Air Station, where a transport plane waited. At 6 am., he Adm. reported for Dennison duty at Camp Lejeune, ticketed as a field surgeon yith a Marine assault company on Its way to Cuba. On the island of Vieques, off Puerto Rico, Marine officers were surprised when their assault exercise ships failed to arrive at 6:30 a.m. as sched- Order t The Utah Trade Commission 4091 ha ordered Thrift City. and cease to 3500 South, Wert desist" pricing and established certain item be minimum, Parley w Men were routed from bed Camp Lejeune. Jhe Hercules planes unloaded Marines at tne Guantanamo base In Cuba and flew back with evacuated dependents; children, babies In diapers, even pregnant mothers. THAT SUNDAY, Price-Cu- Marines began oiling their rifles before dawn. At first light, ' they began test firing their machine guns and mortars off the fantails of the five amphibious transports. Secrecy still shuttered armed preparations on Monday, Oct 22, but it was a day of swiftly rising tempo. in efOperations Plan X a Four potlater, hour? fect" bellied Hercules transport took off, its red canvas bucket seats leaded with Marines in full battle dress. 1 Mi Thrift City Face would be the first to storm the Cuban beaches. Knebel tight aii-- ashore on the island of Vieques near Puerto Rico for exercise, Philbriglex 62. He was awakened at midnight, summoned by voice radio to an immediate conference aboard the flagship, USS'Mt. Men ter noted, was "for real In the 3rd Battalion, which ICh erry Point A 14vnc-The operations called: officer lr. 4 'CaBternU OPEN WEEKDAYS 1 0 a.m. to 9 p.m. - SUNDAYS . 10 a.m. to 7 p.tn. 1 225 589 409JMES.Tf3500ISOJUTHII N1TH EGRTAN.GE RfAR E A1 Its- - THRIPT CITY SUM! DISCOUNT i |