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Laying Eggs. Everyone knew where the marauding planes were based: at the rebel stronghold of Menado in the Northern Celebes. But no one save the rebels themselves knew for certain where the small air fleet of four B-26s and two Mustang fighters had been purchased, or who were their pilots. Said a survivor of the tanker San Flaviano: "The plane came in mast-high and laid its eggs right on us. You can't tell me an American wasn't at the controls...
Moving Center. At week's end the rebel leaders-Sjafruddin, Husein, Simbolon-were alternately reported heading for the mountains or in flight to North Celebes, where the banner of rebellion still fluttered at Menado. The Celebes' rebels had managed to buy a few B-26s "somewhere in the Pacific" and had already made bombing raids on government airfields. At Menado, too, was Colonel Alex E. Kawilarang, the former military attaché at the Indonesian embassy in Washington, who was named the rebel commander in chief. But if the rebellion could not flourish in rugged Sumatra...
Defeat. But the uprising was doomed to short life. By early evening Batista's troops and tanks were rolling into Cienfuegos from nearby Santa Clara, while B-26s and F-47s from Camp Columbia pounded away. The battle roared through the night, and by morning the rebels had fled into the hills or had died defending their battered strongholds...
...antirebel drive began, Batista made his determination plain. He sent his PT boats, subchasers and gunboats to blockade the coastline south and west of the mountains. He airlifted more than 250 army reinforcements from Havana to Oriente. His Air Force B-26s skimmed the mountain treetops, looking for signs of rebel movements. He bitterly denounced "predatory oppositionists" and "criminal elements, including Communist collaborators," who "seek through terrorism and disorder to damage their nation's economy as well as its prestige to satisfy their own personal anti-patriotic ambitions." He rejected any thought of a truce...
...into three independent companies-United Air Lines, United Aircraft Corp.,† to make propellers, engines and planes, and Boeing Airplane Co. Says Allen: "We came out of it with less than $1,000,000 in liquid assets. We were still building the rest of an order for 136 P-26s for the Army, but that was it." Bill Boeing disgustedly sold out his interests and retired. Phil Johnson, who by then was head of the parent United Aircraft & Transport organization, was "exiled" from the industry after the Government let it be understood that it did not want him to work...