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- ↑ University of Kentucky Alumni Association
- ↑ "Army ROTC (Military Science)".
- ↑ Trieste United States Troops
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- ↑ "Army ROTC (Military Science)".
- ↑ "Eighth Army Rangers: First in Korea". www.soc.mil. Archived from the original on 2019-12-04.
- ↑ Rearden, Steven L. (1984). History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: Into the missile age, 1956-1960. ISBN 9780160611261.
- ↑ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Indochina, Volume XIII, Part 1 - Office of the Historian".