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...stay out of the swelling crisis, even to the point of ordering U.S. troops to stay off the streets of Danang and Saigon, suddenly found itself forced to take sides. To "liberate" Danang, Ky needed U.S. planes to move his troops. Next day he got them: six U.S. C-130s, provided on the direct order of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, lifted 1,300 Vietnamese marines to Danang...
...gear to Pleiku from Bien Hoa airbase, 18 miles northeast of Saigon. In a matter of hours, troops of the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were climbing aboard their planes. Throughout the night and into the day, the big C-123s and C-130s lumbered into Pleiku, disgorging men and machines, Jeeps, trucks, cannon, ammo and supplies. Then off the planes winged to Bien Hoa for another load. By next evening, a full brigade of American troops was in the trouble zone. The U.S. forces swiftly headed up Route...
Based in the U.S., the Airmobile Division will be ready to move at a moment's notice to any trouble spot in the world-and get there within a matter of hours, using Air Force C-130s to carry all men and equipment except the largest helicopters, which will be flown in giant C-133 turboprop cargo planes. The U.S. already has airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand capable of handling such planes...
From Ascension Island, where they had been in readiness for a week, the paracommandos flew in 14 U.S.-piloted C-130s to Katanga's giant Ka-mina Military Base and thence toward their target. Below the gaping jump-hatches, the Congo wound broad and tawny through black-green bush; the tin and tile roofs of Stanleyville shone pink in the early light. "Stan," as it is known to both black and white, is the most African town of the Congo. The "Inner Station" of Conrad's Heart...
...with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...