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...Honduran capital, six World War II-vintage Mustangs, which comprise the bulk of El Salvador's air force, hit several Honduran garrison towns. Next morning, Hondurans wheeled out its eleven old, fold-wing Corsairs and sent them to bomb Esso oil tanks at two Salvadoran ports, Acajutla and Cutuco...
Said one Salvadoran : "What this country needs is to cart every last bit of armament to Acajutla and dump it into...
Genuine it sounded to Washington. The Navy ordered a cruiser and two destroyers to Acajutla, on the Pacific coast of El Salvador, near Sousonate. Loaded with marines they set out from Balboa under full steam. Two Canadian destroyers, which happened to be passing, put into Acajutla, two days ahead of the U. S. ships. Great Britain sent a cruiser to prevent "much bloodshed...
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