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...long the big silver planes roared in over the Plain of Jars and touched down in a rooster tail of dust on the dirt strip at Lat Sen. There were Air America Caribous, C-123s and two four-engined C-130s borrowed from U.S. Air Force bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
...ground. But suddenly he pointed the plane's nose down the runway and took off. Though the plane normally requires a flight crew of four, Meyer seemed to know what he was doing. He had some experience piloting light planes, and worked some 500 hours on C-130s. Before takeoff, he had taken on enough fuel to fly for 15 hours-more than enough to get him across the Atlantic...
...Iranian government moved quickly to help the living. Within 48 hours, survivors in the major villages received emergency supplies, and Iranian air force C-130s were soon parachuting tents and blankets to hamlets unreachable by road. Nothing more could be done for the dead. Four days after the earthquake, the government reluctantly ordered in bulldozers to turn what once were the victims' homes into their permanent graves. The leveled villages will be abandoned, and new ones built nearby for the survivors...
...ground reinforcements were available. With the Communists bunched around the camp, the U.S. also hoped to use its airpower to maximum effectiveness -and it did, killing hundreds of the Communists and setting off dozens of secondary explosions. Nonetheless, the evacuation turned out to be a harrowing operation. Two C-130s, a Skyraider fighter-bomber and five helicopters were gunned down by the North Vietnamese, including one C-130 loaded with the camp's Vietnamese defenders and their dependents. How many were on board no one knows, but if, as likely, the plane had a capacity load...
...launch Operation Junction City, which cost upwards of $25 million, the U.S. threw in 30,000 troops, the equivalent of two entire army divisions, and sent noisy C-130s over the area to deliver the first American combat parachute jump of the war. Giant trees crumpled as B-52s from Guam, 2,600 miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through...