Air Force Magazine:

Laid out across a vast wooden table made in the woodshop of a Navy ship repair facility in Guam in 1967 was a map of the Pacific Ocean island chains of the Northern Marianas, Palau, and Micronesia.

As large as the map was—spread out at the rounded head of the historic table that once hosted a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese representatives—it showed only the small region of the South Pacific where the exercise Valiant Shield took place June 6-17. Across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean, the exercise included 15 surface ships, more than 200 aircraft, and about 13,000 personnel from across the services…

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