Word: airlifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area had been under Communist control for five years, government troops under the command of General Vang Pao recaptured it. There was little hope, however, that the plain could be held in the face of a determined Communist counterattack, and over the past few weeks a U.S.-organized airlift had removed some 15,000 civilians from the area (TIME...
...after the airlift ended, the North Vietnamese struck in strength. For ten days the 6,000 government defenders on the plain held off the 10,000-man enemy force. They were aided considerably by massive U.S. air strikes-including, reportedly, the first use of B-52s on the plain. Airpower, however, was not enough...
...most powerful state in all of Black Africa. Black-ruled African nations, worried about the effect of the rebellion on their own disparate tribes (see box following page), were overwhelmingly pro-Nigeria. Officially, the U.S. took no sides, but it irritated the Nigerian government by undertaking an airlift of public and private food supplies to keep Biafrans alive...