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...second attempt was less routine. A monster parade of Army reservists (some of them 80 years old) was scheduled to march down the Calle Florida. At 10 a.m., two armed men burst into the administration building at the Matanza Airfield south of Buenos Aires. At gun's point they forced mechanics to wheel out a plane. "Don't be scared." they told the grease monkeys, "we're doing this for the good of the country." The strong-arm men climbed aboard. The plane hopped off the field, cracked up after 300 yards. The two men crawled...
...supply a diversion for an attempted breakout from their pocket in northwestern Leyte, the enemy dropped parachutists from a score of planes (twin-engined transports resembling the DC-3) in the area west of Dulag, and especially around Burauen airfield. U.S. antiaircraft destroyed some of the planes, but about 200 paratroopers landed. Under Jap uniforms, some wore civilian clothes...
...Wrote. In the pockets of some of the dead paratroopers were phrase lists in English. The most succinct: "Go to hell, beast." More dramatic was a formal statement to be made on landing, with the name of a U.S. airfield to fill the blank: "I am chief commander on Japanese desant [descent] paratroop army. All the airdrome of [blank] has been taken tonight by the Japanese Army. It is resistless, so you must surrender. Answer yes or no. All the Japanese Army has done great attack...
Boss of the job was handsome, 27-year-old Lieut. Colonel Edward A. Flanders, one of the top 10% in West Point's class of '40. When "Wonder Boy" Flanders arrived on Saipan, the invasion was only five days old and the battle still raged. Aslito Airfield, a 3,900-ft. Jap fighter strip, had been nailed down by U.S. forces only two days before...
...plus-12, Aslito, now renamed Isely Field, was longer by 1,000 feet than the Japs ever knew it, and big enough for bombers. On D-plus-15 another airfield was started, half a mile from where tanks were banging away at the enemy...