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...week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters and C-47s dropped down with emergency planeloads of arms and equipment for Guatemala's neighbors, and the U.S. sent three B-36 intercontinental bombers to rumble over Managua as part of Nicaragua's armed forces day parade...
...little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow up everything. Fini. Repeat. Fini." The C-47s were rocked by the shock waves from exploding Isabelle. "They were enormous explosions," said one pilot later, sadly. And the Red radio crowed:'"All the enemy troops who tried to break out were annihilated. All fighting has now ceased...
...most owners found them impractical because of their short range, slow speed and high maintenance cost. Such planemakers as Piper, Cessna and Beech then smartly went after the new corporate market. The first purchases of many corporations had been war-surplus planes ranging from light trainers to C-47s and two-engine attack bombers. But most corporations found them either so costly to operate or so unsuited to their needs that planemakers had little trouble selling them new craft...
...engine production by all secondary suppliers of all production models, except for Pratt & Whitney's J-57. But the hardest hit was General Electric, a primary producer of the J-47. It will cut its monthly production in half. Packard and Studebaker will stop making J-47s by December. Nash will wind up production of Pratt & Whitney's R-2800 piston engine by May, and Chevrolet will stop making Wright's piston R-3350. Buick will continue making the Wright jet Sapphire only until present shortages are made up; then it will stop production. After the cutbacks...
...Cancel orders for 145 B-47s,420 T36 trainers and 72 assault transports...