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...Responding in kind, the U.S. employed giant C-5A, C-130 and C-141 cargo planes to carry 5,000 tons of equipment to Israel. Promising to replace Israel's heavy aircraft losses, the Pentagon began speeding Phantom jet fighters to the war zone. Two U.S. attack carriers and two amphibious assault carriers, each bearing 1,800 Marines, began gathering in the eastern Mediterranean, and some 50 U.S. Air Force personnel were sent to Israel to help with the airlift. President Nixon asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $2.2 billion for Israeli resupply...
...route to Israel over the Atlantic. The 747s, owned by El Al, were ferrying bombs, ammunition and spare parts to Israel. Similar scenes took place at airbases in Europe as well as the U.S. Among them was Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where arms were loaded aboard C-5A transports. These scenes were probably also taking place at airports in Eastern Europe as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. engaged in fiercely competitive efforts to resupply their Middle East allies...
...military gear to Egypt and Syria. Most of it was carried aboard AN-12 cargo carriers-similar to the American C-130-and by Russia's largest air transports, the turboprop AN-22, which has a payload of 80 tons (30 tons less than the giant U.S. C-5A Galaxy). The Soviets also transported an unknown quantity of supplies by ship from Black Sea ports through the Bosporus to the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia and to Alexandria in Egypt...
...Russian airlift began five days after the war started, the U.S. effort four days later. By the end of last week, however, the U.S. was equaling the daily Soviet tonnage and had transported approximately 5,000 tons of supplies to Israel by C130, C-141 and C-5A cargo planes. Prevented by Spain from using U.S. bases there during the crisis, the American transports refueled at Lajes Field in the Portuguese Azores, then flew on to Israel. The Defense Department stationed what it called a "limited" number of Air Force logistics experts in Tel Aviv to help unload antiaircraft...
...price for telling the truth in Government can be inordinately high, as A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a onetime civilian cost analyst for the Air Force, found out. After Fitzgerald disclosed to a subcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee in November 1968 that cost overruns on the giant C-5A cargo plane added up to a phenomenal $2 billion, his days at the Pentagon were numbered. His Air Force superiors, Fitzgerald claims, did not applaud his frankness before Congress. He was cut off from cost information about major weapons systems, an investigation of his private life was initiated, laudatory comments were excised...