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...status as a major general in the Air Force Reserve does not qualify him as a final authority on military matters. McNamara reported that he had inherited a chaotic situation at the Pentagon in 1961. "Each military service made its own independent plans," he said. The Army relied "on airlift, which the Air Force was unable to provide," stockpiled for a two-year war while the Air Force was set for only a few days of combat. "Funds were allocated not on the basis of military requirements, but according to the dictates of an arbitrary fiscal policy...
...Leopoldville last week winged four C-130 Hercules transports, which the State Department said would be used to airlift Tshombe's troops and supplies to rebel-threatened areas. Aboard the big planes were 44 hand-picked U.S. paratroopers-equipped with Jeeps, bazookas, grenade launchers and machine guns. What would they be used for? Well, said State, they would guard the planes...
Back in Focus. The big airlift was the war's worst-kept secret. In Saigon, government information officers alerted photographers several days in advance. When the troops hit the Ben Cat touchdown, most of the Viet Cong had already slipped away. One U.S. helicopter pilot was killed, as were 20 Communists...
...Airlift capability...
Uris piles up countless petty errors of fact, even of grammar ("It's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing" is another Uris pronouncement). The airlift and the gutty Berliners deserve a better chronicler...