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...Pacific port of San José-as camps to train an army of invasion ("No charge." said Alejos. "Just remember me in Havana"). Through Alejos, the CIA also arranged a $1,000,000 hurry-up surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting in September, an airlift of U.S. planes shuttled between recruiting centers in Florida and the Guatemalan camps, bringing in the first of more than 2,000 combat trainees. Later, Alejos helped establish two more camps, one at San Juan Acul, close to the Mexican border, the other at Dos Lagunas in the jungles of northern...
...315th Air Division, under Brigadier General Theodore Kershaw, can airlift units of the 3rd Marine Division to Laos from Okinawa in 196 sorties...
...More spending for non-nuclear weapons and equipment, including antisubmarine warfare capabilities, airlift, sea transport, and ship rehabilitation and modernization...
...hands of the Communist Pathet Lao rebels (see map). Lean, well-conditioned guerrilla bands slipped like shadows through the green jungle, re peatedly outflanking the roa'dbound Laotian army. The rebels were backed up by Soviet artillery and munitions fed into the northern Plaine des Jarres by airlift and truck convoy from Hanoi, capital of Communist North Viet Nam. Hanoi also supplied gun crews, and each Pathet Lao company was stiffened with a cadre of from 10 to 15 North Vietnamese...
...Force, whose jet bombers travel at 650-plus speeds, has long had one big problem: its cargo-carrying and military airlift planes traveled only half as fast, were chiefly propeller planes. Last week the Air Force took a $1 billion step to develop a cargo-carrying jet air fleet. From Lockheed Aircraft it ordered a new 575-m.p.h. cargo-carrying jet, the Super Hercules (SOR 182). Lockheed won the contract over the competition of Boeing, Douglas and Convair, expects to deliver the first plane by late 1963. All told, the Air Force will get more than 100 planes...