May 19, 2011: THE LAST COLUMNIST requested the crossword matrix to remedially challenge your knowledge of American military history. Click PUZZLES on navigation bar for more matrix challenges.R Q W D C C F H X W A B N F D X F F B C Z I V X K B F O K W B P I W O J I M A J K N L X F Z S V O L T A R I V E R O A K R I D G E K L H V I Y U W P O Q P K M K G L E S L I E H E T J C A M E L W H G P A E R R B K O A X W M B Y T K B U K N X T I N R A P K W S R G Q G J U O O I S A I G O N D Q H G X H A L A N R C J R R A G H A R D S Y P C A N A L I M Y W V B K E I Y T N U S S A R I Z O N A N B C X M Z P A U L T I B B E T S N E G F M G I M
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Answers found in the Matrix:
Across
- This ship sits on the bottom of PEARL HARBOR with Americans still entombed inside. — ——-
- Name the pilot of The Enola Gay. He remembered the Americans still entombed at Pearl Harbor when he flew over HIROSHIMA. (Capt. PAUL) ——-
- Remember Martin Luther —-.
- Site of Oct. 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut killing 216 Marines —— —- —-
- His “Illustrated Newspaper” was a witness to the Civil War. Frank —— .
- Name of the actual bridge in ‘Remagen’. ———-
- Truman sat between these 2 jokers at the Potsdam Conference.(Churchill was already voted out) —— ——
- It will never be Ho Chi Minh City to me. ——
- Ship of the desert/GI cigarette.
- River running through Burkina Faso.
- Famous flag raising photograph taken here. — —-
- Hue/Tet. Don’t forget Marines under seige. ——-
Down
- For those left behind at the 38th Parallel. —–
- D-DAY Landing. ——–
- 3 Hidden cities built to produce the atom bomb. (Found in New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington)
- Remember what they ate to survive, rhymes with shrubs. —–
- ——— National Cemetery. Find John F. Kennedy there.
